TOMMIE SPECKS, GRAY GEESE AND 
THE CRANE 
There was a great company of the young 
bird people gathered on the Happy Island 
beach that day. There was Little Baby 
Laughing Loon with her brother and sister; 
there were Tommie Specks and his sister 
of the Eider Duck family, and there were 
the six Gray Goose children who had re¬ 
cently come to the island. They had all 
played until they were quite tired out; then 
they had found a sheltered place between 
two rocks where the sun peeped warmly 
through, and where the sand was warm and 
