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Show I DAILY ANIMAL STORY FOR THE WEE SALT LAKER THE BLOWER. . There was once In the North Sea a whale that had a son who was a disappointment disap-pointment to liis mother, for he was a great blower. . Now, every whale Is tempted to blow, but this whale was so fearfully conceited that all other respectable whales despised de-spised and shunned him. Nothing was ever done in his family, or by himself, that was a little out of the ordinary but he would blow aboul It In the presence "of his feliows. ' And as for the things that he said he could do well, they would make good whaling stories for a fisherman. . One thing his mother had warned him of. - "However much you blow about your home and among your companions, my son. never, no, never, blow when you are near a ship." ' -f'Don't worry, mother,"- he said, "I can take care of myself." One day he lay basking in the warm sun near the surface of the ocean. Off on the horizon was a ship sailing toward hirot . I He Jumped in the Air. "I'd like to see them catch f me and make me into blubber and oil,") said he, and he began to blow. Stream .after stream of water he sent high Into the air. He felt so proud. But the man on the mast of the ship had seen him. "There she blows!" he cried. A boat was lowered, with a man standing in the prow with along harpoon. Our whale was so busy blowing that he did not see them come. Zip! Sirz! sang the harpoon, as the sailor hurled It. It struck the whale in the side. He Jumped In the air. The water was red with blood. It was the end. Don't be a blower! |