Sunny broke up a slice of bread the teacher gave her. She tossed several of the small pieces far out into the waves.
The next instant the Brownies heard a loud “squawk, squawk.” Down dived the big white gull, flapping its wings as it seized the bread.
“Oh, let me throw the next piece!” pleaded Vevi.
Miss Gordon gave her a chunk which she hurled into the waves. This time, not one gull, but two came after the food.
The loud squawking of the birds also brought Raymond Curry, the life guard.
“You’re not supposed to feed the gulls here,” he scolded the children.
“It was my fault for I gave them the bread,” Miss Gordon apologized. “I’m very sorry.”
The Brownies gathered in a semi-circle again to resume their bird talks.
Jane’s turn came next. She told about the tern, describing it as one of the most graceful birds she had ever seen.
“They look like large black-capped swallows,” she told the Brownies. “When they fish, they’re faster than a gull, plunging head-first into the water.”