The White Fowl of the Prairies

Gany was some seaman's name for albatross. I assert then that in the wondrous, bodily whiteness of the bird chiefly lurks the secret of the spell. But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and i will tell. As the fowl floated on the at last the captain made a postman of it, tying a lettered leathern tally round its neck with the ship's time and place - but i doubt not that leatherand tally meant for man was taken off in heaven when the white fowl flew to join the wing. The most mous in our western annals and indian traditions is that of the white steed