Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Hearsay Evidence. [ARTICLE]

Hearsay Evidence.

The ship was passing one of the lonely, rugged islands off the Maine shore when the Captain pointed to an enormous flock of gulls that whitened tho rocks, the surface of the sea and tho branches of the cedars that cling to the hard soil. “There,” said he, "what do you think of that? ATtid yet if you turn to a book on natural history, they’ll tell you that gulls won’t perch on trees. Some fool sailors believe that the petrels, or Mother Cary's chickens, never alight, even on the water, but are always on the wing. They don't use their eyes. And some of these scientific fellows are as bad as the sailors.’'