BABY LOON MEETS LITTLE BROWN SEAL 107 
wild soaring of the Puffins and of her own 
brothers and sisters could not assure her. 
This day she had grown brave. She 
would soar away in the sky. She just 
would! So she climbed far, far up the side 
of the mountain to the top of a great cliff. 
She thought that surely from here it would 
be only a step right out into the sky. But 
after she had clambered, puffing and pant¬ 
ing, to the very top the sky seemed no 
nearer than before. Such a strange thing 
this sky was anyway! The land now, was 
always much the same and so was the sea. 
Oh, yes,—the sea turned black at times and 
green at others and sometimes it was gray, 
but anyway it was always there. As for 
changing of color why her mother’s splendid 
square checked bathing suit changed too 
when the sun shone upon it. But the sky! 
Why even now it was changing color and 
going away fast. How could she be expected 
to take a ride upon it? 
She had waited and waited and waited 
until a little bit of the sky came quite close 
