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THE STRANGELAND BIRD LIFE 
and was staring at Huskie as if he were likely 
at any moment to jump up and pinch his nose. 
“Do not ask your questions so fast,” said 
Huskie, “and I will explain. This isn’t Alaska, 
and none of the people you speak of have ever 
lived here. This is almost a new world alto¬ 
gether. When you knocked at Mrs. Eider 
Duck’s door and found her not at home you 
were very near the Arctic Circle. Now you 
are very near the Antarctic Circle, and those 
two circles are thousands and thousands of 
miles apart, and though they run round the 
earth for ten thousand years they’ll never be 
one foot nearer together anyway, that’s what 
my master, the geography man, says, and he 
ought to know, for he spends all his time 
making strange drawings on paper to help 
small children with when they go to school.” 
“Oh-h!” Stormy took a long breath, and 
tried to get the world turned right side up in 
