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THE NORTHLAND BIRD LIFE 
mother suddenly appeared in the water al¬ 
most under her very nose. “Did you lose 
me?” asked Mrs. Laughing Loon, smiling 
gaily. “Well, now, this time you watch 
very closely, very closely indeed, and per¬ 
haps you will see me all the time.” 
She went sailing away as before, and dis¬ 
appeared as before, but look here and there, 
everywhere on the ocean, Baby could not 
see her till she appeared as before, very close 
to shore. “Well, I do declare!” exclaimed 
her mother, “I thought you had very sharp 
eyes, but here you have lost me again! This ; 
time I will do it very, very slowly, and you 1 
watch very sharply.” 
She swam out into the water again, and 
this time as Baby watched she saw the ! 
very least bit of her mother’s bathing suit j 
seeming to float like a bit of sea grass on 
the water, and just before it, was the tip 
of her mother’s nose. That was all she 
could see. “Now I understand!” she ex¬ 
claimed, as her mother came to shore, “You 
just pull yourself down in the water and 
