find something to think about as they watch the big gulls, 
which seem to know that the law protects them, perched 
near by in secure places. How close they come, and yet 
how safe is the spot they choose on the tops of piles, the 
dock signs, the peaks of roofs, or the slippery surface of a 
floating box or keg! They are near enough to show their 
friendly interest in waterfront happenings, but their private 
quarters make man and boy show a decent regard for the 
rights of birds. 
Alaska—Taken by Capt. Robert C.. Wright 
Stealing a Ride— | 
A Glaucous-winged Gull 
From late April to the 
last of August few gulls are 
to be seen. They have gone 
to the coast regions of their 
states or to the Northland. 
In that season, they have 
hunted for a lonely island 
or a rocky cape, far from 
mankind, where they may 
hatch their egos, and train 
their young in gull ways in 
safe seclusion. There they 
will stay until their downy 
babies have learned to fly 
and to swim, to feed them- 
selves and to find their own 
food. | 
The old birds return in 
the late summer with the 
young that have escaped 
the dangers of babyhood. A 
flock may be watched following a steamer, perhaps playfully 
pushing one another from the very tip of the flagpole, or 
stealing a ride on the long boom, of logs which hangs behind 
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