ARRIVAL OF THE ADELIE PENGUINS 
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shawls tied over their heads. But he wasn’t 
a real man, so he just thought of them as people 
very much like his own father and mother, only 
smaller and squattier than they. 
Very well behaved people they were. As 
they marched up the streets they did not move 
a pebble or molest a person. And well they 
might not, for if they had shown the least idle 
curiosity, not to say meddlesomeness, they 
would have had their ears soundly boxed by 
thrifty housewives, I am sure. Mannie watched 
them as they made their way to the higher land 
above their town. 
“I believe they are going to build up a 
town all of their own,” he said to himself, “or, 
perhaps, it is to be an addition to our town.” 
He liked to think of it that way, and felt very 
proud of himself and his family as he thought 
of this great addition to their village. “Why,” 
he thought, “if this keeps up, Penguin Town 
will soon be a city and we can put in electric 
lights, water works, and street cars.” 
