Dear Esther (№ 329769)

Dear Esther. The seagulls no longer fly here; I noticed this year that they try to avoid this place. Perhaps the lack of fish deter them. I might. When Donnelly landed here for the first time, he wrote that the herd was sick, and their shepherds were considered the lowest of all the poor classes among the inhabitants of the Hebrides. Three hundred years later they went even.