THE SNOW STORM 
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go with his mother to a dry, safe place where 
Father Penguin could bring them fpod. 
-They were very happy. But in their own 
happiness they could not help feeling sad, for 
where there had been a happy home next to 
their own, was one great drift of snow with 
never a sunken place in it, and that meant that 
some mother and her child had been buried 
there, or that the poor little fellow had been 
left to smother while his parents sought safety 
for themselves. Mother Penguin gave Mannie 
an extra loving tuck before she hid him away 
to dry, and gave three hoarse calls to her mate 
to come and bring them food. 
