Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17
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The Thankful Fish
0yXIHoo Whoo What story sha
w tell you tonight hooted Judge
Owl to Peggy and Billy. -,
The story you promised us last
night /" cried Peggy from her window.
0well YOU know Colby Gun was a
good fisherman" began Judge owl he
didn't Ash with a hook and line like a
hoy. but with a sharp beak. He would
sail over the water with his eyes LOOKING
down into the water and when ne saw
q fish near the top that he thouBh,
would make a good meal, down he wouIu
flash after It.
zone day he was out fishing with an
other young gull named Whitley Gun
They were seeing which CouId CaLCl
and gobble the most fish while racing
from the shore 10 the lighthouse Eacn
had caught and eaten hSh apiece ana
the score was even,
Then. of a sudden. they saw school
OF young herring below them, NoWn
swooped the two gulls and each caught
a fne young herring. They we're about
TO eat the herrings, when TO their sur
prise the fish began to beg for lite'
"'Please don't eat US, Please don
eat us and we will do the same for YOU
some day said the herrings in fish talk
"whitey Gull paid no attention. to the
HEADINGS Of the FISH he had caught, tut
promptly ate It down. Wasn't that a
foolish Ash to ask me not 70 eat MN.
said WnlteN. W nav are ISll l'I ~ l''
10 be eaten. And wasn't II silly OF hn
TO say he would do the same tor mo
some day. And away fapped NhiteN
toward the lighthouse. gobbltng another
herring on the way.
'Gobby Gull opened his beai ana
dropped the young herring back into IN"
water. Swim along little fish, he saId
You have made me lose my rae" "It'
Whitley Gull bur K Is better for me 10
lose the race than for you 10 lose your
"whitey Gull made lot Of FUN Of
COLBY Gull for being 50 tenderhearted
as TO let the herring 20.
but he said II | wOuidn eat Inn
he would do as much for me some DAY,
argued Colby Gull. feeling Ol; fooI'Sh
under Whiteys laughter.
""That shows how much sensr YOU
have sneered Whitley Gull Everybody
knows that gulls eat fish. bur Who eve
heard Of fish eating gull That
But even though the herring had
fooled Colby Gull. he felt better for haV-
ing let the tish go, particularly as
Whitley Gull presently got a stomaSF
ache because he had eaten TOO much
Some days later it happened that
COLBY Gull and Whitley Gull were OFT
hunting food again. tnis time in pile
Of saaweed among rocks left bare a. low
tide. They were husily feastnE on !;t'
creepers and shellfsh, when thcy notice
Ine tue MAJ pfSht ~ IiSts W AlNNN ~
tried 70 flap into the air but found h
oouldn't.
."'My feet are caught IN the seaw eed.
cried whitey Gull beginning 20 thrash
about.
$50 are mlne caught squa wked Cob
by Gull Then the gulls struggled hard
for they knew Il they didn't get loose tn
rising tide would bring the water VI
over their feet then up over their bodie
and up over their heads and they wou!t
be drowned.
Fight as they wou,d however the
couldn't get loose Their feet mad be
come all tangled in the weeds.
Help Help sQuawked the w.
gulls, but no help came. and the wate
rose higher and higher Help Help
Then Whitley began 10 thrash around II
n frenzy I'm being eaten up oh Oh
Please don't eat me, and III do IN
same for you some day
COLBY Gull looked down into III
water, and there around their feet was
school OF herring. As COLBY looked II
felt a nibbling al his toes--a n!bbln
and a tickling. 'ACh . ACh Colby be
gan to litter because he couldn't hel
me " The tickling was getting wors
and worse. and COLBY Gun thought h
was getting eaten up, when sudden,
he found his feet were free from tr
weeds Up ne tapped into the air. an
Just in time for in another moment n
water would have been over his hea
and he would have been drowned
"A herring nose stuck out Of vate
I told you I would do the same for 70
some day said the herring II Wa IN
very same fish Ciohhv had spared az
now in its thankfuluess 1t had save
him by gnawing away the weeds tina
had held him.
But as for Whitley GU, rhe wa,e
rose over his head and he vas drowned
and the last COLBY saw Of hlrn the rs
we're Teasing on Whitley az WhlI~~ ha
foasted on the fish And tomorrow T.
tell you the story Of 'iohh5 Gun. IN
stone eggs, and the Indians with tina
Judge Owl silent.y flew away into III
niGht. leavLng PeggN and BLL.y s,eel