THE SEA GULL AND STAR FISH. 
If you look at that Sea Gull, you will see it jfly up 
and down just over the wet sand, now that the tide 
is out. Do you wish to know why it goes up and 
down in that way for so long a time ? It is on the 
look out for food ; for, as the tide goes out, the last 
wave will now and then cast up a Star Fish, or 
some such food, with the sea weed, and this the 
Gull will pick up, and find very nice. You know 
the Star Fish has five arms — one kind has ten. It 
is not good for us to eat, but the Gull will like it 
very much. 
The nest of the Sea Gull is rriade on a rock, or 
a cave^ near the sea. The Gull lays its eggs so 
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