MORTIMER COLLINS.

_Mother Carey's Chickens._--In Hawkesworth's _Voyages_ there occurs the

following passage: "The petrels, to which sailors have given the name of

Mother Carey's chickens." Who was "Mother Carey;" why was her name given

to the petrel; and why have sailors so great an objection to their being

killed?

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