

"You see them go by, and suddenly you feel upset and want to be somewhere else-wherever the path or the river is going, perhaps. "It's funny about paths and rivers," he mused. Sniff was spellbound and stood gazing at it for several minutes. (There were still plenty of things left for them to discover in the valley.) He was wandering in the forest when he suddenly noticed a path he had never seen before winding mysteriously into the green shadows. One morning-it was the morning that Moomintroll's pappa finished building a bridge over the river-the little animal Sniff made a discovery. It was a wonderful valley, full of happy little animals and flowering trees, and there was a clear narrow river that came down from the mountain, looped round Moominhouse, and disappeared in the direction ofĪnother valley, where no doubt other little animals wondered where it came from. The Moomin family had been living for some weeks in the valley where they had found their house* after the dreadful flood (which is another story). Pearl- fishing, the discovery of a cave, and
