THE LEGEND OF OPECHEE 



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" Oh no, Tommy- Anne ; our young are naked, 

 and their great round eyes are tightly closed, 

 and it is several weeks before they are fully 

 feathered and fit to fly." 



How very funny ! I saw 

 some little Sea Gulls 



last sum- 

 mer, when 

 we were at the 

 shore, and father JBW took me sailing to 



the great island; * W ^f and they could 

 walk down to the water's edge 



and find food as soon as they were hatched. In 

 fact, the eggs lay on the sand without hardly 

 any nest for the poor things to stay in if they 

 wished." 



"Heart of Nature has arranged it so that the 



