A SEA-GULL STORY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3127, 25 February 1879, Page 2

A SEA-GULL STORY.

A strange incident occurred on board of the lightship off Fiying-pan Shoals. During the prevalence of the severe storm of the 12th of September last,. After the darkness of night set it, one of the sea* men was leaning his elbow upon the port* rail of the ship, watching the storm as it raged in all its grandeur and sublimity, when a large black bird dashed through the bliudiog mist and lit upon the railing near where he was standing. He took the bird, which proved to be an ordinary sea-gull all wet and drabbled by the storm, and warmed and dried it in his bosom after which he placed it in,ajittle bed improvised for the occasion,' after fi*s£ feeding it, as if it had been a, little child. The next morning, the storm having subsided our seaman turned the bird loose, of course, with no expectation of ever seeing it again. Very much to his surprise, however, on the very next night, at about the same hour of its previous visit, the gull again put in its appearance, alighting on the rail as before, when it was fed caressed as on the occasion of its first call, and from that time up to the 9th instant, nearly two months, when the latest information was received from the ship, the bird had continued its higtitly visits and had been regularly fea and consigned to its "little bed. 1' where irVould remain until released the next morninir —Wilmington (N. C.) Star. 8