THE SEA LEOPARD 
LL the bright, golden snow¬ 
flakes which flew to the sky 
and stayed twinkling there 
all night had faded away, and 
it was morning again. 
“A very bright morning, 
very bright indeed!” said Mannie Penguin, 
tightening the string to his bathing suit. Man¬ 
nie was very happy, and well he might be, for at 
last his bathing suit was finished, and his mother 
had said he might try it out that very day, so he 
gave a hop and a skip and turned a back somer¬ 
sault, as he tobogganed down a slippery hill. 
But Mannie wasn’t quite as happy as he 
would have been if he had not tried going away 
from home all by himself before. He didn’t 
feel quite certain about things, but when he 
caught sight of the water, all blue and white 
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