OcEAN WANDERERS 
season before the young were all able to leave the 
nests. Probably it is this tardiness that makes some 
of the fishermen believe that the Petrels hibernate 
in these burrows, aad come forth in the spring 
sound and strong. 
But the Ocean Wanderers need not our theor- 
izing or assistance; they are a law unto themselves. 
We cannot hope to follow them in all their devious 
and trackless wanderings. Storms that destroy us 
aes tom tucm jor littley moment. ‘lor <decades- yet 
they will seek out their arctic and antarctic solitudes 
beyond our reach and ken. Yet though they regard 
us not, we shall know more of these wild, free 
roving creatures the more that we, like them, 
love to be 
“Rocked mithe cradle of the deep.” 
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