78 THE STRANGELAND BIRD LIFE 
What a Glorious Morning It Was 
before. Right before him towered a great wall 
straight up and down. So steep it was that he 
could neither climb up it, nor if he were able to 
do this would he have dared to toboggan down 
it. What was still worse, the red giant face of the 
sun had disappeared altogether, and the wind 
whistled round the rock dismally. 
“How cold it is up here,” Mannie shivered. 
But not to be beaten even at this, he started 
going along the edge of the cliff. “Surely 
