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I recommended my readers to go and look at the Penguin in "the Zoo. " I wish I could with reason 66 A bout the Feathered Folk. urge them to go and look at the puffins in the Hebrides. But Regent's Park is within the reach of so many people, and but few indeed can reach the far-away cliffs where our wild-fowl breed. Not so very long ago there was a colony of Puffins " sea-parrots, " as the people call them at Flam- borough Head, but the persecutions of the fowlers seeking for eggs, and the thoug...htless cruelty of " sports- men, " who shot them down without mercy, have driven them away. The sailors used to say they were the "Flamborough Pilots, " and they declared that, in the nights when the mists hid the warning beacon fires, many a ship was saved from destruction by the cries of the bird- colony, which proclaimed to the anxious steersman how close he had come to the dangerous coast. And now the cliffs are silent, and the ships are wrecked ! Penguins. 67 When the Act of Parliament for the Protection of Sea-birds was passing through the House of Commons in 1870, some verses appeared in the Times about this very thing verses which went far to draw attention to the stupidity, as well as the cruelty, of destroying the birds.
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