OCR Text |
Show DADDY'S EVEEJIMG '$m lK8RYTALE.gfj Msry Graham Bonner LION WAYS The lions always call lo each oilier when a hlorui is coming as I have often told you. At night lu the zoo they roar and call out to each oilier. Always they call, always Ihey an.-wor. They do II In Ihe Jungle or the zoo. But In Ihe zoo they are lint so friendly. friend-ly. Two of Ihe king lions or two of Ihe prince lions cannot be kept together. to-gether. They would kill each oilier. So would I wo of Ihe queen lions. Sometimes Some-times die king and queen or a prince and princess will be friendly, bill they do not like their own kind In Ihe zoo. The male hates the male, the females fe-males other females. Tills Is the zoo way. Out In the Jungle they are too busy hunting for food lo be so warlike with each other and the zoo Isn't their natural nat-ural home, of course. But Sllll they call lo each other at night In Ihe zoo. Just the very way, Ihey would If out In the Jungle. And when a slorm comes they warn each other of danger, although If they were put together even at such a lime they would fight. It was Ihe following morning and Ihe big storm was? over. Princess Lion was looking at (he cutis In Ihe next cage. She sa( (here wall her paws crossed and her big eyes looking very fierce. The cubs were playing with their breakfast of meat bones and fine red meat. "Oh." thought (he princess, "if I could get my paws on one of those cubs and (ear him to pieces." "I hate my children anyway," said Prince I. Ion (he first, who was pacing up and down In (he cage a( the other tide of the princess. As he talked he swung his head as though to tell her how much he meant what he w-as saying. "Oh," he continued quite cheerfully, "I always hate the children. The III Uliqjl ;.1' x Princess Lion Was Looking at th Cubs. mother lion keeps them from me. She seems lo like them. "Now, my cousin, the cat, Is Just the same way. He hates kittens. It's only the mother cat who likes them. "And even though I'm a lion and a ca( Is a ca( used to living under sloves and by (he fireplace, still he Is my cousin and there are many qualities quali-ties alike about us." "I thought he was a cousin of the tigers." said the princess. "So he Is," said tlie prince. "But he's my cmsin, too, for we are what they call the 'cat animals,' the leopards, leo-pards, tigers and lions." "1 wouldn't object to the cubs," said the princess, as she kept watching watch-ing them, "if (hey were my own. "What I mind Is seeing the lit tie things and knowing they belong to the queen. "I am so Jealous of her anyway." And the princess snarled and gave a deep grumble, to prove she meant what she said I |