GRUMPY THE WHALE
Every year hundreds of * visitors flock'to spend the summer at Tadoussac on,the St. Lawrence River, Canada, but none is more popular' than Grumpy, writes an overseas correspondent of "The Children's -Newspaper." When he comes to Tadoussac the whole town turns out to welcome him, and he is just as pleased to see them, showing his delight by leaping into the air and snorting loudly.
Grumpy is a 40-foot whale, who has been coming here to spend a few days' holiday every July for 19 years. He is the only big whale that ever comes into the St. Lawrence. The only inhabitants of the bay who do not like Grumpy are the porpoises, for the giant soon lets them know that he is master and chases them away to the Saguenay
River.
There is sadness in Tadoussac when Grumpy finally makes for the open sea, but he never feels sad, for he has had a wnale of a time!
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1939, Page 17
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161GRUMPY THE WHALE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1939, Page 17
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