HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS 73 
first brood have learned to take care of them- 
selves, they go about together, getting their food 
and sailing on the water in a little party, while 
their parents are hatching the second brood. 
But when the younger ones are big enough, 
they are led to the water, and at once their elder 
brothers and sisters join them. They all swim 
around together, the youngest in the middle of 
the group, where they are protected and fed by 
the elder brood as well as by the parents, a lovely 
and united little family. 
