his dignity had been sorely wounded. No one 
had ever treated him that way up at Matinicus, 
even if a man did throw a fish head at him one 
day. He would have no more to do with such 
people, so he started down the bay as fast as 
his wings could carry him. He stopped a few 
days at Cape Cod and then went on down the 
coast. 
The heart of New York City is on Manhattan 
Island. It is called an island because a little 
river, the Harlem, cuts it off from the mainland. 
With the ebb and flow of the tides from the 
ocean, the water in the Harlem River runs first 
into the Hudson River and then a few hours 
later turns and runs the other way into the 
East River. | 
Near one of the bridges which crosses this 
stream, that never seems to know its mind about 
which way it should flow, there empties one of 
the city sewers. Down this underground stream 
come many fragments of food that somehow get 
into it. Hardheart, while wandering over the 
waters around New York one day, came to this 
spot and concluded this was a good place to 
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