CHAPTER XXX 



DUCKS AND DRAKES 



It was the last 

 dren's stay at the 

 thing 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 

 had once gathered 

 wampum shells from 

 the same beach in the 

 ). They were 

 wiser also in many ways, 

 for they had 

 found out 

 many things 

 for them- 

 selves — 

 which is the 

 very best 

 sort of wis- 

 dom. Now 

 even Dodo 



could tell by the footprints on the sand Avhether a 

 tln-ee-toed Plover or a four-toed Sandpiper had been 

 pattering there. 



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Hooded Merganser. 



