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come on this voyage and seen this marvelous berg ! Then, as they 

 raced on, borne along by the giants of the ocean, soon it was 

 warm again, and then very warm, and the little wave asked, "What 

 does this mean? I don't see anything to make us so hot !" 



"Ah," said his brother, "these are our cousins, the waves from 

 the south, rolling along on the stream that comes from the great 

 Gulf, and we are crossing their path." 



" Where do they go ? and can't we go w;^"//i them? They are so 

 nice and warm!" said the little one. 



"All right, we'll join them," said his brother. "They go up by 

 Ireland and Scotland, and over to Norway. I haven't been that 

 way for a long time. ' ' So they turned aside and followed the warm 

 stream, and before many days they began to see birds again, and 

 then land! But they didn't stop, as this was a rocky coast and 

 they would only be able to dash up against its sharp sides or run 

 into great dark caves, and besides that, the big brother had some- 

 thing more to show the little waves. They saw jagged peaks on 

 the horizon, and more and more ice floating about, and the days 

 began to be longer and longer, and finally there came one day when 

 the sun didn't go out of sight at all, but just touched the edge of 

 the water, and rose again ! 



"Now," said the big brother, "you've seen one of the most 

 wonderful sights in the world, but we mustn't stay here too long, 

 because by-and-bye it will be night here all the time, and no day 

 at all!" 



"Oh, I shouldn't like that!" exclaimed the little wave, "unless 

 the moon shone instead," he added quickly, remembering how 

 beautiful she made some of the clear nights at home. 



"Well, I think you've seen enough for one trip," said the big 

 one. " It isn't good for httle people to travel too much, so I think 

 we'll be going now, and you can tell the others all about it, and 

 perhaps we'll have a big party of them wanting to voyage around 

 the world, next year!" 



So they sailed away home again, the little fellow quite used to 

 the gay life and motion now, and after a good many wonderful 

 days, he ran up the familiar beach, and kissed all the pebbles in 

 turn, he was so glad to see them again ! 



