SAFE AT HOME 
M ANNIE PENGUIN did not know when 
he would get back to land from that 
iceberg which was floating out and out to sea. 
So he hoped that he would not be caught by old 
Killer Whale, or Great White Gull, the fierce 
pirate, or by a Sea Leopard. He watched the 
shore fade and fade, and every hour he grew 
more restless. Every hour he paced up and 
down on the iceberg, and every now and then 
he would climb to a high point to see how far 
he really was from his own dear home and 
every time he grew more alarmed. He was 
getting really very far from home for a young 
fellow who was just trying out his first bathing- 
suit, and had only that very morning taken 
his first swim. So he paced up and down faster 
and faster, and looked at the shore more and 
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