84 ALONG THE FLORIDA REEF. 



and eager eye, hovering near, settled down upon 

 the pelican's broad head, and as the fish was 

 tossed about, preparatory to swallowing it, the 



Perpetration. 



thievish gull adroitly snapped it up and sailed 

 away with a derisive " Ha, ha ! " while the peli- 

 can, as if accustomed to this sort of pocket-pick- 



