CHAPTER XXX 



DUCKS AND DRAKES 



It was the last 

 dren's stay at the 

 thmg combined 

 the sail to Gull 

 spent three glo- 

 were as ruddy 



week of the chil- 



shore before every- 



to make possible 



Island. They had 



rious weeks, and 



brown as any of the 



little Indians who 



lad once gathered 



wampum shells from 



the same beach in the 



were 



long ago. 

 wiser also in 



They 



many ways, 

 for they had 

 found out 

 many things 

 for them- 

 sel ve s — 

 which is the 

 very best 

 sort of wis- 

 dom. Now 

 even Dodo 



could tell by the footprints on the sand Avhether a 

 three-toed Plover or a four-toed Sandpiper had been 

 pattering there. 



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Hooded Mkrgansek. 



