Sheila Barton., Age 8, Of Vankleek Hill, Ont., Canada, for her question:

What are drumlins?

You surely have heard of gremlins. Well, drumlins are not related to gremlins or pixies or leprechauns. Drumlins are not related to any of these little people who live in the wonderful never never world. They belong in the very real world of everyday. In fact, drumlins belong to the real and solid earth. Each one is a hump or a bump of the ground.

The drumlin was named by the same people who named the pixies and the leprechauns. Drumlin was their name for a hill. To them a drumlin was a long hill or ridge    and that is what the experts who study the face of the earth still call a drumlin. It is a special hill of gritty gravel, pebbles and stony debris left behind by an old glacier. In its lifetime, the glacier toted along all kinds of dirty debris and shoved more piles of debris ahead as it pushed forward. When it melted, this debris was left behind in the long hills known as drumlins.