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them to roost in its master's yard during the night. In that 

 period of restraint, when it was necessary to observe the 

 caution of drawing its quill feathers, to keep it within 

 diminished capabilities of flight, until it became familiar and 

 domesticated, it was wholly dependent on the fish provided 

 for it by the fishermen of the beach. Sunday was no fishing 

 day with these men ; and this was, therefore, a day in which 

 there were no supplies for the pelican. It became, in time, 

 so conscious of the recurrence of this fast-day, that although, 

 at all other times, it went daily down to the sea-side to 

 wait the coming in of the canoes, on the seventh day it 

 never stirred from the incumbent trunk of a tree, on which 

 it roosted, within the yard. It had been found necessary to 

 pluck its wings within the last two or three months, to re- 

 strain it within bounds, in consequence of its absence latterly 

 with the wild birds, for several days in succession, and in 

 this state it was reduced, as formerly, to depend on the 

 fishermen for food. The old habit of abstinence and drowsy 

 repose on the Sundays again recurred, and when I saw it, 

 it was once more a tranquil observer of the rest, and with 

 it the fast, of the Sabbath-day." 



The Fenguin. The Penguin belongs to South America, Aus- 

 tralia, New Zealand and the Cape of Good Hope. There 

 are a number of species ; the Jackass Penguin, so called from 

 the peculiarity of its cry, the King Penguin of the South 

 Pacific, and the Cape Penguin of Cape Horn, the largest of 

 the penguins, being the principal varieties. Mr. Darwin in 

 describing the Jackass penguin says:— "In diving, its little 

 plumeless wings are used as fins, but on the land as front 

 legs. When crawling (it may be said on four legs) through 

 the tussocks, or on the side of a grassy cliff, it moved so 

 very quickly that it might readily have been mistaken for a 

 quadruped. When at sea and fishing, it comes to the surface, 

 for the purpose of breathing, with such a spring, and dives 

 again so instantaneously, that I defy any one at first sight 



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