SHEATHBILL THE ROBBER 
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happened to be the stomach of an Emperor 
Penguin. I forgot to tell you that not only 
Mannie’s father was called Emperor, but all of 
Mannie’s folks, both men and women. 
“Excuse me,” said Mannie. But the Em v 
peror was far too much out of wind to say any¬ 
thing, so Mannie hurried to join a group of 
boys and lost himself from the Emperor’s sight. 
“He might be a bit angry when he get’s his 
breath,” he thought to himself. “But I wonder 
how I got to our village by sliding straight 
down the hill? When I climbed up the hill 
I went over two ridges to reach the top.” 
But he was too hungry to bother his head 
about that very long. His breakfast must be 
cold by this time. He would hurry right over 
to that house with three red stones on one side, 
and three white stones and a red on the other. 
But where was it, which way should he go? 
He decided to go right through the town and 
look both ways. This did no good. “I’ll just 
