THE POLICEWOMAN 
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and crossed his feet. “I don’t suppose any 
of you know me. I know all your folks very 
well. I was over here a month ago. Had a 
fine time, too, I must say. Very clever folks, 
your people are.” Stormy spread his wings and 
tried to look his very best, but the boys still 
twisted their hands behind their backs and said 
nothing. 
“This is a fine day,” said Stormy, “the 
river’s fine, why don’t you take a swim?” 
“Our bathing-suits are not finished yet,” 
ventured Mannie Penguin, having lost his em¬ 
barrassment. “Mother says they won’t be done 
for three weeks.” 
“Well, now I call that too bad!” said 
Stormy, seeming to feel sorry for the boys, but 
in truth, feeling more sorry for himself, for if 
the fact were known, he had come back to Pen¬ 
guin Village to get a boy for a traveling com¬ 
panion, and it did not please him a bit to find 
that none of them had their bathing-suits 
finished. 
