No one had- a greater fund of amusing anecdotes than the late Lord Charles Beresford, and some of his best were about irishmen. One concerned a certain son of Erin, who described his first day’s shooting (in the following Hibernian way “The first bird I ever shot was a squirrel and the first time I hit him I missed him altogether, and the next time I hit him in the same place* After that I took a §tone and dropped him from the tree, and he fell into the water and was drowned, and that was the fir,st bird I ever shot ”
Although young turtles are hatched on d.ry land!. as soon as they leave the hatching" place they make straight fqg the sea. Carnegie Institute men in the Dry Tortugas sought to find the influence that guided them to «the water. When a sheet of red 1 or yqllow paper was placed between the baby turtle and the sea, it would turn and go in ancfhe? direction, but a blue sheet drew him towards it no matter where it was placed. It would seem then to be the" colour. rather than instinct, thpt attracts the youngster to the water.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 775, 13 October 1922, Page 7
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