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agree, and it wasn’t long before Baby Laugh¬ 
ing Loon became convinced that Kittle Wake 
was trying to get away from Ivory Gull. 
Which was exactly what he was doing. He 
was making very bad work of it, too, for 
he was much smaller than his companion, 
and besides, he had Baby Laughing Loon to 
carry. For a long time they had been far 
up in the air, so far it made Baby Laughing 
Loon dizzy to look down at the blue sea. 
But now they sank, sank, lower and lower, 
till her feet almost touched the tips of the 
highest waves. Then a strange thing hap- 
