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tributions from their lunch baskets, but there was nothing like the feast of 
heretofore. At lunch time the workmen about the courts were surrounded by 
a hungry horde which begrudged each mouthful that disappeared down 
Fig. 15. Gulls congregated on the marina 
human throats, and was not satisfied with the crumbs that fell to its share. 
Accustomed as they had grown to associating food ivitli the presence of human 
beings the shortening supply at the Exposition grounds drove the gulls to the 
idea of following up the people, and before long the birds were to be noticed 
Fig. 16. A I5ATH IN A RAINWATER POOL 
as frequent visitors to the parks which are so numerously scattered about San 
Francisco, ivhere people not only shared their lunches with them but many 
deliberately took out household scraps to feed them. While the gulls have 
