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THE STRANGELAND BIRD LIFE 
Was Not Here a Fine Mother With a Large Fish? 
mother who had always fed him? Why, then, 
should he run away to hunt some mother who, 
perhaps, had no fish after all? So on and on 
he ran, chasing the lady with the basket faster 
and faster until she began to puff and puff, and 
was soon quite out of wind. 
“Give me my breakfast,” said Mannie, 
coming up very close. 
Now it is true that all Penguin people 
are very near-sighted, and when Mrs. Pen¬ 
guin sat down to rest she took a better look 
at Mannie. “Why!” she exclaimed, “if you 
don’t look for all the world like my little son. 
