STORMY AT THE BIG CANAL 
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Well, Stormy had to admit at last that he 
was very ignorant of this strange land, and 
was glad enough to have the dog tell him all 
about the warm canal zone and the great 
Panama Canal, through which the greatest 
ships of all the earth could pass from one ocean 
to the other. But the dog could tell Stormy 
nothing of the land which lay still to the south¬ 
ward. 
“I don’t think I should care to take a trip 
through the canal,” said Stormy. “I have heard 
that some of the bird folks of the land are very 
dangerous fellows, and would rather destroy and 
eat you than to look at you—Old Baldy, the 
eagle, and Grey Coat, the hawk, and such as 
they.” 
Stormy took a friendly farewell of this old 
acquaintance, who went on hunting dead fish 
while Stormy went out on the ocean where it 
was cooler to think things out. Here he was 
