WOMEN'S FRIEND
SEAGULL’S AMUSING ACTIONS. For the past seven years, since she befriended a seagull when it was “down and out,” a 95-year-old woman, Mrs. Sarah Lewis, living alone at Shute Cottage, Manorbier, near Pembroke, Wales, has found the bird an inseparable companion. Three times a day she has fed the gull, which sometimes goes indoors with her to have its meals.
“Every morning at seven o’clock,” Mrs. Lewis stated, “the seagull comes to my doorstep and cries loudly for me to let him in.
“He spends a lot of time on the chimney pot, and, when he sees me carrying food out, flies down on to my shoulder.
He comes into the kitchen when I am having breakfast. “Each morning I have a round of bread waiting for him, and I always feed him out of my hand. “Two years ago my gull found a mate and brought her back with him to the cottage, but, do you think he would allow her to beiome friends with me? Not he.
“He will not allow her, at any cost, to come further than the chimney. If she tries to come down he sends her back. I think he must be very jealous of our friendship.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 4
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