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STALKING A GULL

With stealthy step they stalked the greedy gull.

A noose they laid around the tempting bread

and waited, breathless, while with stately tread

the old bird on the sand came closer. Wait!

Will he be fool enough to seize the bait?

Ah, clever bird! No boy bamboozles him –

he rises slightly and on fluttering wing

seizes the bread and veers off down the beach.

The sprung noose dangles empty. Out of reach

over the waves the sagacious seagull flies

with taunting laughter in his raucous cries.