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THE STRANGELAND BIRD LIFE 
“Our Bathing Suits Are Not Finished Yet” Said Mannie 
Stormy shifted uneasily about on his seat. 
He saw he was in a bad business. Any tramp 
is in bad business when he is hunting up a boy 
to travel with him, and he knows it. Stormy 
knew it, too, and was nervous. “But I may as 
well make a good impression on them now,” 
he thought to himself, “then, when they get 
their bathing-suits it won’t be the least trouble 
in the world to get one of them to go right 
away.” At that he cast a dreamy spell over his 
visage and began; 
