THE HERRING GULL. 



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locomotion enables us to 

 effect in a few hours ! 

 Yesterday, perhaps, we 

 were walking down Bond Street, in all the 

 discomfort of a London toilette, midst cabs and 

 carriages, crowd and confusion. To-day we are 

 sitting on the edge of Swyre Cliff, Dorsetshire, or 

 on the summit of Beachy Head, dressed in an old 

 shooting-coat and " wideawake," listening to the roar 

 of waves, and the scream of gulls and guillemots ! 



