THE STRANGE MOTHERS 
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there were three little red stones on the lower 
side and three little white ones on the upper side, 
and there sleeping all alone was someone whom 
he knew was his very own mother! He just 
crept right into bed without waking her up and 
was fast asleep in a jiffy. 
Next morning he had many strange things 
to tell the people of his own town; the find¬ 
ing of the robber’s den, and the strange Pen¬ 
guin town, and all about the finding on the 
robber’s den, and all about how he had been 
treated by the mother Penguins in that strange 
town. 
