Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . eaf and see. So Josie turned over the leaf, and saw that it was a man that 72 GETTING EGGS. The sea-birds nests. The use of the stick. The boiling sea. they were letting down. Here you see himhanging by the ropes. The man is gather-ing eggs. The eggs are laid by the sea-birdson the shelves of the rocks, where there isno way to get at them except by letting mendown in this way with ropes from above; forthe cliffs ov
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . eaf and see. So Josie turned over the leaf, and saw that it was a man that 72 GETTING EGGS. The sea-birds nests. The use of the stick. The boiling sea. they were letting down. Here you see himhanging by the ropes. The man is gather-ing eggs. The eggs are laid by the sea-birdson the shelves of the rocks, where there isno way to get at them except by letting mendown in this way with ropes from above; forthe cliffs overhang the sea, and thunderingsurges are dashing continually against therocks below. Some of the eggs are so far in among thecrevices of the rocks that the man can notreach them with his hands, so he has a stick,with a crook pn the end of it, and with thishe draws the eggs toward him till he getsthem within his reach. He finds it neces-sary to take care not to pull them too far,lest they should roll down over the edge ofthe rocks. If they should do so, theywould be lost forever, for they wouldfall down hundreds of feet into theboiling sea. The birds do not like to have their. GETTING EGGS. 73 Description of the picture. The tremendous precipices. eggs taken away from their nests, and they fly about the man ashe hangs in the air, screaming in his ears, and endeavoring todrive him away. These birds are ducks. There is one of them sitting on hernest, where the man can not see her. Her eggs are safe. Below, at the foot of the precipice, we see the surge boilingagainst the broken rocks. It would be a dreadful thing for theman to fall among them. He would be dashed to pieces, andimmediately killed. In the first picture we behold a sail-boat in the distance, slow-ly gliding over the surface of the sea. Elfred liked these two pictures very much indeed, partly be-cause the children were always very much interested in seeingthem, and partly because he was accustomed to go on an egg-hunti
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