A SALUTE FOR BRUIX. 
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These, with the malhu’ds and the teal, made the 
shallow waters of the little sandy bays vocal with 
their qiiackings and screamings, and it was at 
once highly exciting and amusing to* watch their 
loves and cjuarrels, their fiutterings, alarms, and 
greedy gobblings. The little guillemot kept turn- 
ing gaily about in the water, and the long necks 
and pointed heads of the divers were seen at 
intervals above the surface. 
At the water s edge the golden plovers and the 
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sand-pipers came trooping along the mud-flats, 
while the shrill whistle of the oystcrcatcher and 
the cry of the curlew Averc hcai'd yi the distance. 
Half buried in the shingly beach, I obseiwcd the 
Imge skull of some hapless Avhale, stranded in the 
shallows after having sought shelter in the bay. 
Just before we landed, Ave j)crceived a black bear 
trotting along the beach. Before he had climbed 
the red clift' behind him, he Avas saluted AAntli a 
rifle ball, Avhich caused him to turn his head and 
cast an angiy glance upon the intruders on his 
domain. We found, the scaAvecd scratched up by 
