HUSKIE, AN OLD FRIEND 
ITH slow steps and won¬ 
dering mind, Stormy ap¬ 
proached the great host of 
strangers. “How strangely 
big they are!” he thought to 
FP himself, “Why! some of 
them are more than half as tall as a man. And 
how dignified they look!” 
But he was far too curious about this 
strange land to allow either fear or wonder to 
keep him back and beside he was getting to 
feel lonesome as everyone must who is in a 
strange land where he does not know a single 
person, so he tramped forward to meet the 
strangers and was soon standing face to face 
with the tallest and gravest of them all. Behind 
the leader stood the great host in respectful 
silence, looking for all the world like a great 
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