The Glaucous-winged Gull 



Taken in Seattle 



PORTRAIT OF GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL 



Photo by the Author 



upon you with level eye, and rebuking by his very blue-gray calm the 

 pomp and madness of men. This throbbing ferry-boat grimly intent upon 

 the business of getting its human freight from shore to shore, is still our 

 best serviceable solution of the transportation problem. The gull fur- 

 nishes his own conveyance, simple, subtile, compact, yet elegant beyond 

 the powers of art, and adequate beyond the dream of engineers. Effort- 

 less, noiseless, tireless, he views from a thousand easy angles your muddled 

 helplessness, and mocks by a thousand airy caprices your tedious destiny 

 as freight. 



You have escaped for the nonce from the counting-room, fetid with 

 usurious plots; his business has always been conducted in the open, his 

 many farings vised by the sun, and his lodging-places purified by the gen- 

 tle rains. You are concerned about your clothing, and you dress labori- 

 ously for "the occasion"; his wardrobe is always on his back, well-fitting, 

 seasonable, and "correct." You, poor human, are worried about the in- 



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