JEALOUS BIRD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

JEALOUS BIRD

ELDERLY WOMAN'S FRIEND AMUSING ACTIONS OF GULL For the past seven years, since she befriended a seagull when it was "down and out," a 95-year-old woman, Mrs. Sarah Lewis, living alone at Shute Cottage, Manorbier, near Pembroke, Wales, has found the bird an inseparable companion. Three times a day she has fed tho gull, which sometimes goes indoors with her to have its meals. "Every morning at seven o'clock," Mrs. Lewis stated, "the seagull comes to my doorstep and cries loudly for me to let him in, "He spends a lot of time on tho chimney pot, and, when lie sees mo carrying food out;, flios down on to my shoulder. "He comes into the kitchen when I am having breakfast. "Each morning i hav-? a round of bread waiting for him, and I always feed him out of my hand. "Two years ago my gull found a mate and brought her back with him to the cottage, Dut, do you think lie would allow her to become friends with me? Not ho. "He will not allow her, at any cost, to come further than the chimney. If she tries to come down he sends her back. I think he must- bo very jealous of our friendship."