Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 552
the clam as it fell and flew away up the shore, leaving the angry gull to dig an-other clam, if he could find one. From where I lay I could see the black robberendeavoring to break the clam-shell by holding itin his beak and knocking it smartly upon a rock.Not succeeding in this, he flew upward a… … THE BLACK ROBBER PLYING HIS TRADE. the Kil-ee, kil-ee, of the gulls answered by aharsh Caw-caw-caw! from a distant pinestump where the black robber was again on thelookout. Later I learned that when the fishing season ison and the herring are plentiful the gulls seldomtrouble themselves about…
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