A DRIFTED BUOY. 



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innumerable teredos. The accompanying picture 

 shows the havoc wrought by these little creatures 

 in a piece of timber I picked up and brought 

 home as a curiosity. 

 The Gulf Stream 

 played the St. Kil- 

 dans rather a cruel 

 trick not long ago.- 

 A man whilst out on 

 the hill - tops one 

 afternoon had his at- 

 tention attracted by 

 the most bewildering 

 object he had ever 

 gazed upon. It was 

 a great blood - red, 

 conical thing bobbing 

 about in the sea 

 away to the west. 

 After watching it for 

 a moment, he rushed 

 madly down to the 

 village with the 

 strange news. A boat 

 was at once launched 

 and pulled round the 

 end of the Doon, 

 where it fell in with 

 the astonishing prize 

 which, from its re- 

 markable appearance 



and shape, was adjudged to be of great value. As 

 there was a good deal of sea running at the time, 

 and the size and shape of the prize made it some- 

 what unmanageable, it took a long time and a 

 great deal of hard work to get it home and hauled 



DRIFTWOOD BORED BY TEREDOS. 



