Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — Gull and Eel. [ARTICLE]

Gull and Eel.

“We had a gull, a tame gull, with clipped w'ugs,” said an English writer, “who wonli; fi ed on fish if we would give him nny, failing fish, on raw meat, failing raw meat, on worms and insects, and, failing these, on anything, including sparyows. It was the most fascinating entertainment to give him an eel, for he would toss the eel about several ways until it came to a position most suitable for swallowing, when he would swallow it; but the eel, not yet defeated, would often wriggle up in his gullet again, and this process would be repeated many a time. So, if swallowing be a delight, the pleasure which our gull derived from the process must have been manifold. Eventually the cel would weary of the vain ascent of the gull's gullet and consent to remain In contact with the juices of digestion.”

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