Lake Umbagog.
1909
June 14 [June 14, 1909]
(No 4)
spray with their feet just as they came best to view.
When they reappeared they invariably came up with the
body horizontal and the head and neck at light angles to it,
bobbing up like so many calls suddenly reheard from below
and rising by their extreme buoyancy and impetus appreciably
above the level of their normal "water lines" before settling
back to them again. Quite evidently they were getting
their own breakfasts, without the slightest assistance or
even direction from their mother, who, indeed, was often
busily engaged in obtaining food for herself at some distance
from them. At best I could not see that she paid 
much attention to them or gave them signals of any kind
while she certainly did not offer them any of the food
which she must have secured. By degrees the mother
& young worked slowly down along the shore until they
were all within less than 40 yards of our big boat. I