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ence to Swinburne's ode, that this bird had been 
happy in its poets, quoting from the Greek 
Antholu-y some lines of Tymnes, addressed to the 
soul of his dear dead sea-mew ; reading which, the 
writer says, "one seems to see the white bird 
drifting on wings unstirred down the dark ways of 
death, past the White Rock of the Land of Dreams, 
to join the sea-fowl happy on the shores of 
Persephone." 
I remember, too, that in that same year (1887), the 
hotel-keepers on our coasts were advertising " sea- 
bird shooting," to attract visitors of sporting tastes 
to their houses; that, besides the cockney sportsmen 
who were shooting the gulls merely for the pleasure 
of it, others with a view to gain were destroying 
them in a larger way ; and where the wings only 
were required, these w^ere torn from the wounded 
birds, which were then flung back to perish slowly 
and miserably on the water; that the birds and 
wings thus procured were being worn all over 
England by thousands, nay, by millions, of women 
— worn not only in the open air, but in churches 
where the worshippers were to be seen bowing 
their heads, decorated with such spoils, at the 
sacred name of Jesus ! 
And now, after all that has been spoken and 
written on the subject since 1887, and when the 
damnable fashion has been put aside, how are the 
