Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — A Pelican Story. [ARTICLE]

A Pelican Story.

A California paper relates the following fish st; ry “Last Sunday there was a great crowd of fishermen on the wharf hauling in yellowtails and ma kerel. During the height of the soort an immense pelican measuring fully six feet from tp to tip of wings, flew down so low over the wharf that one of the boys seized him by the wing. In the other hand the boy held a string of eight mackerel, and it was the work of but a mom -n* for the pelican to grab the fish and gobble up the lot at one gulp. Others then seized the bird, but the fish wi re safe so lar as the pelican was con coined, and he was ually al owed to di p .rt This is not a fish story, bub a pe lean tore, and entirely truthful.”