GRAY GOOSE AND DUNGEMESS CRAB 71 
Those naps seemed very long indeed. 
Philander, the largest of them all, and the 
one who always acted as their leader, tried 
that once, and after what happened to him 
then, he never cared to try it again. 
But for all that, those naps seemed very 
long indeed, and the little Goose folks grew 
more and more impatient about them, until 
one day Philander said to his brothers and 
sisters, “I’ll tell you what we will do. We’ll 
just go down to the ocean and hunt our din¬ 
ner for ourselves. We will get back in time to 
be here when mother wakes up, and then 
won’t she be surprised when she finds some 
