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ably concluded that Baby was too well pro¬ 
tected for them to catch her. 
Night came on at last and with her fright 
and the long, long day of travel Baby Laugh¬ 
ing Loon was glad enough to tuck her head 
under her wing and go fast to sleep, rocked 
in the cradle of the deep.” While she slept 
strange changes were going on up in the 
sky, changes which at first she would not 
understand. 
She awoke at last “to a world unknown.” 
While she slept everything had turned white. 
Everything but the sea and that was looking 
very gray at the sight of things about it. 
Beneath a hood of white, Little Brown Seal 
was cheerfully looking at her. She had half 
a mind to be frightened, the sky looked so 
very strange, all white as it was. As she 
looked she saw that it was all make up of 
little particles. 
“Oh!” she exclaimed clapping her wings 
in her excitement, the sky has all come to 
pieces and is falling down!” 
