MOTHER SPECKS’ NEST 
“Hurrah! The day’s just right for a 
swim!” cheered Tommy Specks, as he 
turned a somersault from a rock into the 
sea. Tommy was dressed in his bathing 
suit, and a wonderful bathing suit it was, 
too. It looked like the downy edge of a 
silvery cloud sewed to a bit of the deep blue 
sky. And his cap was more wonderful still 
—the deep blue of a sea cave and the golden 
green of the sunset. Astride his nose were 
the widest rimmed spectacles that ever a 
boy gloried in. It was these spectacles, 
worn by all the men of his family, which 
gave the Specks their name. For Tommy 
was the youngest son of Madam Specks of 
the Spectacled Eider Duck family. 
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