"No, no! See! they are eating the crickets! They are eating only the
crickets!"
It was true. The gulls devoured the crickets in dozens, in hundreds,
in swarms. They ate until they were gorged, and then they flew heavily
back to the lake, only to come again with new appetite. And when at
last they finished, they had stripped the fields of the cricket army;
and the people were saved.
To this day, in the beautiful city of Salt Lake, which grew out of that
pioneer village, the little children are taught to love the sea gulls.
And when they learn drawing and weaving in the schools, their first
design is often a picture of a cricket and a gull.