the sea-gulls feed upon him, Yes, my friends Kayoshk, the sea-gulls; Drive them not away, Nokomis, They have saved me from great peril In the body of the sturgeon, Wait until their meal is ended, Till their craws are full with feasting, Till they homeward fly, at sunset, To their nests among the marshes; Then bring all your pots and kettles, And make oil for us in Winter.

From the numberless hives of activity on both sides of the river clouds of smoke roll heavily upward, and jets of steam from panting machinery leap up in momentary whiteness on the dark background; the white wings of flocks of wheeling gulls flash in the occasional sunshine which lights up the scene, and between the clouds there are glimpses of blue sky.

I have the gull-flayer on the hip at last.

There was only the wide blue sky above, only the wide waste of restless waters at their feet, only a circling sea-gull nearno human being to watch the tragedy of love and pride played out by the sea Waves.

[Illustration: The Sea-Bird] Far, far o'er the deep is my island throne, Where the sea-gull roams and reigns alone; Where nought is seen but the beetling rock, And nought is heard but the ocean-shock, And the scream of birds when the storm is nigh, And the crash of the wreck, and the fearful cry Of drowning men, in their agony.

" As nimbly as a sea-gull runs upon the sand, the young creature flew across the now level raft toward the sea, but a strong hand clutched her as she was about to step overboard, and compelled her back to her place on the platform, where, bound with cords, she lay raving, until sleep or unconsciousness mercifully supervened to spare me the spectacle of her agony, which no human power could alleviate.

We put out into the surf not knowing what else to do, and called for Harrie; we leaned on our oars to listen, and heard the water drip into the boat, and the dull thunder beyond the bar; we called again, and heard a frightened sea-gull scream.

The white gull screaming, left the rock, And seaward bent its glancing wing, While heavy waves, with measured shock, Made the dun cliff with echoes ring.

To-night I noticed a skua gull settle on an upturned block of ice at the edge of the floe on which several penguins were preparing for rest.

How I watched the sky that day, Miss, no mortal knows; how I started when I saw a sea gull skim across the waves!

" "Here is the £5," cried Hamilton, as he entered; and, throwing the note upon the table, "it is for the gull trick.

This is succeeded by a poetic panorama of views from the Severn to Bristol, introducing a solitary ship at seaand the "solitary sand:" No sound was heard, Save of the sea-gull warping on the wind, Or of the surge that broke along the shore, Sad as the seas.

The book was "The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym", specially printed for him on laid paper, each sheet carefully selected, with a sea-gull watermark.

Were the sea-gull wings of the fishing-boats to flee panic-stricken before those gray sharks of steel!...