THE GANNET 
Gannet building her nest. Her dutiful husband 
brings her as much seaweed as he can find, and 
sometimes he may be seen flying in with a tremend- 
ously long piece held in his beak and trailing behind. 
If another pair should be unwise enough to leave 
their nest unguarded, a Gannet in need will have no 
hesitation in stealing some of their best material to 
furbish up his own nest. Should he be found out, 
the rightful owner will do his best to punish this 
barefaced theft. 
These birds fight in a curious manner. They 
sit facing each other, and one holds the other by the 
beak, and pulls with all his might. Once a certain 
Gannet found that a stranger had taken possession of 
his nest. He was not going to allow this, of course, 
and so he seized the beak of the intruder, but, tug as 
hard as he could, he was not able to pull him off. 
Mrs. Gannet happened to come up at this moment, 
and she naturally took the part of her husband, and, 
laying hold of the tail of the bird on the nest, began 
to pull in the opposite direction. What would have 
happened if they had continued to pull long enough 
can only be guessed, for the intruder soon had enough 
of the tug-of-war, and flew off in great indignation. 
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