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more anxiously. But, at the same time, he did 
not dare go into the water to paddle home, 
for might not Killer Whale be just hiding be¬ 
hind some ice-cake to get him? And would 
he not swallow him at one big gulp? No, no, 
that would never do! At the same time, one 
could never expect his people to come after 
him in a skin canoe for they never had any 
such things. What could he do? 
Well, by and by, the sun crept down to 
the very water’s edge, then went down, down 
till he could not be seen any more, and then the 
golden snow-flakes took their places in the sky 
and twinkled, twinkled ever so brightly. They 
did cheer Mannie just a little bit, but it grew 
cold, oh, so cold! Mannie wished he was home 
in his own little bed with the covers all tucked 
in about him. And he began to grow very 
hungry, for he had been so eager to try his 
first swim that he had not waited for his break- 
