Show daddy daddis r 5 everit malmo 0 fd bairy i ryta tale I 1 e GRAHAM IM PORCUPINE PARTY the hairy badger from south africa had bad had his dinner then h lia had had a delightful bath or spray from the hose bom the keeper had given him this and he had enjoyed it even more than the visitors who had looked on the hairy badger thought he was very polite to lot t such a lot of people watch him having his Sath bath yes yea he thought he was most obliging the white nosed coati mundi from south america was having a beautiful ful time talking in his own grunting fashion to one of the visitors who had come to the zoo he had had bad a nice alce dinner and was feeling particularly well ile he had bad had a 1 litlie tle chopped beef too with the rest of his dinner and it was nice to be a great pet oh ye yes that was particularly nice the striped tailed dog and the white throated sapajou were together as they always were the white throated sapajou looks exactly like a monkey an and d Is a little animal from south america the sapajou Is just like a monkey I 1 in n all his looks the sapajou had had his dinner and he had had a little meat for he vial was quite fond of that everything he had had he be had put first in ills his pan of water in much the way the raccoon family will wash all their food now how the sapajou and the striped tailed dog had become great friends hb U lr I 1 iz A splendid feast no ko one knew just why but the best of friends they were and so they lived together in their wo home as they had always been together since they had bad first seen each other how happy they weri were together too tool I 1 only it puzzled people to see the sapajou and the dog in a little e zo zoo 0 home borne side fide by side the sapajou was much interested in the visitors and sat up close so he could see them all and ills his little eyes looked so amused and as t though bough he were enjoying himself so much ile he grinned at the keeper beeper eye every ry time the keeper went by and the keeper would speak to him and nd the sapajou would took look much pleased the striped tailed dog too had bad come from south america and d as the sapajou watched the people he fie said to himself this Ms Is a wonderful show seeing all the people pass along and gracious me bow many ahll children there arel are I 1 well I 1 must say I 1 find grownups grown ups and children very amusing to watch yes they cheer me up altogether I 1 really sin am always very cheerful but they make me feel so jolly and so BO amused now mow while all these animals were enjoying themselves in their various ways the four yellow haired porcupines were having a party and they were not paying a scrap of attention to the visitors they sat gat in a circle with their backs turned to the people in the lie very center of the circle was a little baby porcupine and a more cunning little creature you never coald could see nee im sure surd I 1 lie he was us very amah not so very much bigger than a guinea pig and yet his parents were vere such enormously big porcupines all of the four porcupines were very very large the little one was sitting up too just the way they all did and lie was nibbling at lettuce and carrots and eating very grownup grown up op food for a little fellow only two weeks beeks old for that was all he be was ills his parents had been born in alaska and his uncle bud and runt aunt had been born in the united states but lie fie had been born in the wo too and he be found it was very nice A little porcupine Is like a little guinea pig pie in the it can eat anything right away there was a splendid feast for the porcupines porcupine 6 and somo of them were finishing off nith a dessert of bread which many of thu the animals like as a dessert oh yes yer it was a real porcupine party but the one who alio felt like the gustt of honor bonor was the dear little baby porcupine with his funny little black body and his poor little attempts at quills but some day he be would have bave enormous ones like hla his parents paron ls in the meantime meant line it was enough to eat cat and en eat and enjoy life and the people I 1 looked through a x anee between two nt nf I 1 abe lie so they could see the little little litile little fellow teli iw of i zoo too |