STORMY PETREL 
13 
He Sighted a Whaling Schooner 
cooks throw out quantities and quantities of 
choice morsels, and if these are not enough, 
there are always the sailors who love the little 
wanderers and care for them very well. “For,” 
they say among themselves, “if Mother Carey’s 
chickens are with us we must have a safe 
voyage, else what would come of the dame’s 
precious chicks?” The sailors call the wan¬ 
derers “Mother Carey’s chickens,” which I am 
sure you will agree is an odd name for a sea 
tramp, but then sailors are a jolly strange 
crowd anyway. 
