Their mother slily slipped her nose under them and threw them, one after the other, far out into the water." "Ow!" exclaimed the Babe with a little gasp of sympathy.

He himself felt the shock of that sudden, chill plunge.
Uncle Andy chuckled.
"That's just the way they felt," said he.

"When they came to the top again they found, to their surprise, that they could swim; and feeling most indignant and injured they struck out straight for shore.

But there, between them and the good dry ground, swam their mother, and would not let them land.

They did not see how mothers could be so heartless.