Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-18
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURES
Judge Owrs Secrets
BY DADDY
SECRET v
hattie Of the Eggs

au, am going to tell you about
} IN cohby Gull, the Indians ana 'he
{ 49,. egqs." hooted Judge OWL
V ..,ne through thetwiiight 10 tell i'ee'
, eO,'t o1 pII,v their evening story
J a'u "o,,rIs YOU know, are Ike rich Iolhs
? ,o,,e nice summer homes in the
-u. I'D where they spend the hottest
hol'",, ,,. ~ the year The summer homes
n,',I,, D. cehhv Gulls flock were on rocky
oi for out in the lonesome waters
',s'' a ,he mother gulls had their nests
Ihe'T ,,IJ their eggs, while the father
s,,lIs and boy gulls sported ABOUT oil
sa ~" frollcking and fishing All were
u" .,, happy and contented. The Island
w. in,e paradise to them, anu they telt
w. from harm and trouble.
satGp sat"Gpnt one day harm and trouble came
n spoii the peaceful Joy OF the guns, ,ns ame
pa hai MaiiinIdians-lndians ~ who came upon the
Dy ~, isiand while padding their canoes
,,Srnitph the lonesome waters.
UI 1--WE Indians came at n time when the
re.ts of the mother gulls were iilied
I,,i,b eggs. These eggs were carefully
%S,,,aorde1 %,a BY the mother gulls for each
sSS held a baby gull, which after time
esasnid ess hatch out into little boy gull
ar little girl gull.
"The Indians drove the fnother guiIs
from the nests and gathered up all the
III III in baskets They put the bas-
ts,s.ss IN their canoes and padded away
70 have an egg feast. paying no atten.
lion TO the angry shrieks of the father
gulls wheeling overhead, nor the sad
s1iawks Of the mournful mother gulls.
"The g1ills were very sorrowful after
,bat cruel visit Of the Indians, but soon
the mother gulls laid more spotted eggs,
and began to walt patiently until the
baby gulls should be hatched out. Again,
however the Indians came In their
canoes and once more they robbed the
nests. carrying away all the eggs.
This visit Of the Indians left tho
eulls sadder than before, as they feared
that now no little gulls would be hatched
that year to add fresh Joy and life to
The flock
"The mournful mother gulls turned
again toward their empty nests, but now
COLBY Gull came swooping down with
an idea that had come to him as he
shrieked over the heads of the plumber
ing Indians.
"Do not return to your old nests on
the shore he told the mother gulls.
Build new nests on the rocky heights
inland, and there lay your eggs
"'But the Indians will search out our
new nests and steal our eggs as they
did before walled the mother gulls.
NO answered Colby Gull, we will
fool them so they will not look for the
new nests
And this was the plan OF Colby Gull
to fool the Indians If they came the
third time. He and the father gulls and
boy gulls gathered from the beach
round spotted stones of the size OF
gulls eggs These stones they put into
the empty nests. three and four to a
nest. With these stones were placed
real eggs that had become bad. When
the gulls finished all the nests seemed
to be filled with gull's eggs.
And the Indians did come a third
time, landing on the beach on a beautt'
ful evening. Colby Gull saw them com
ing from afar-two great canoes loaded
with redmen. Colby sped to the true
nesting place and gave the alarm. The
mother birds left the real eggs in the
true nests and hurried to the old nests.
where they sat upon the stones and
bad eggs.
The Indians raced for the islands in
the two canoes, each band eager to get
there first so as to gather more eggs
than the other band The redmen drove
the, mother gulls away from the nests
and greedily gathered up the false eggs
and bad eggs. AS they robbed the nests
the Indians quarreled among themselves
for each band wanted the biggest share
OF the eggs.
AT last all the baskets We're filed
and the Indians started for the canoes
But Colby Gull had another idea in
his, shrcwd head. He and the father
guIlS, wheeling overhead, had bad eggs
IN their claws" They dropped these bad
eggs on the Indians, splashing them and
scattering them.
My, but those eggs were bad. The
spattered Indians grew angry. They
thought Indians of the other band had
thrown the eggs at them. And they
MfeW them back In less time than
Il takes 10 tell, n fierce battle was rag
n8-a battle of bad eggs and stone
eggs The angry Indians pelted eggs at
taeh other as boys pe!t srowbaiIs, In
welr rage they didn't try to save any
OF me eggs. They threw them all as
tast as they Coud. The bad eggs spat-
tcred and smelled. The stone eggs
Hanged and hurt. There wasn't an In.
u'an that didn't have a dozen bumps on