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brightly), and soon arrived at the beach.
Shadows when they are with their masters
have to do just as they do, but once let them
get away and they sometimes act very strangely.
If you ever meet one without his master, watch
him and see if he does not act oddly. This one
had never been away alone before in his short life,
and he felt very free and happy. He ran first
from one end of the beach to the other, then
danced and hopped about, and finally lay down
on the sand and rolled over and over. He was
dressed as he had been in the afternoon, pail,
shovel, and all.

At last, he said to himself, ‘‘ Now to my busi-
ness.” And what do you suppose his ‘business ”’
was? To put another tower on the castle! He
knew just how to do it, as he had helped George
build the other one that afternoon, you know.

But the poor little fellow had forgotten that al-
though Shadows can work very well with their
masters, without them they can do nothing, and
when you are older, children, you will find that
shadow-people are not the only ones who work