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The black seagull

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 A seagull coated with oil tries to take off. It shakes its wings, with great difficulty. It throws two or three drops of dark mud onto two other seagulls. They are more or less white. They were passing by...   “Oh! That’s disgusting! You, Dirty, watch what you’re doing!”    “I am sorry” answers the black seagull sheepishly.     The white ones move away. They hold their heads high. They do not look at their feet. They never look at their feet, never ever. As they say, seagulsl have no f... When they fly, spreading their white wings in the blue sky, they are so proud!   And when they land... Everybody gets by. Seagulls do not speak about that sort of things, that’s so embarrassing!   But look... One of them stumbles over something. It gets hurt....”Ouch!”   It does not look at its feet. It looks around... “Your fault Dirty!” It throws an oyster at the black seagull. “Ouch!” That does hurt too...   From within the oyster, a little shy voice asks: “May I open now?”   “Oh