Show ahe oro BILLIE BROWNIE VISITS BROWNIE who had been B BILLIE given ghen the power by mother na ture to understand her children thought he be would ilk like e to talk to a beav bed cr er lie ile went to a beaver home in a marsh ant and sitting near the great beaver establishment he talked to lit tie master muster brown beaver I 1 was one of four said little M mas as ter crown brown beaver I 1 my mother was barely two years old she was uns what hat you i would cill a oung young mother but that Is the way with beavers their mothers are tire young and their thelt daddies are boung too but it does not mean they act like children no they grow up and become wise and elemn and of full groN growth tb by the were all hard workers time they are two years old eso it Is with me s 1 1 I am ara a good worker we all like to sy work ork to build and to do what we can and I 1 im in a strong beaver just as all the members of our family are strong and healthy 1 I eit good substantial meals of the bark of willows and small aspens ashens these make me strong then too it doesn t make any difference really about the trees as these trees they say are of little use and of little val till ue as timber I 1 Is what the authorities say and authorities I 1 have lave been told know what they are tire talking about they be authorities it if they 4 but I 1 roust must go on with my work it Is getting late and when it gets late I 1 get busy for we like to work at at night best I 1 e some relatives in th the e zoos too fm rm told they are friendly and nf af and make good pets they work hard too and often help the zoo people I 1 sometimes ome times they do work which Is not expected of them and which isn t just the work that Is wanted but no tr matter iatter were we re all hard workers so NO I 1 t talk too much but blut must really act instead I 1 ye te talked a great deal for a bea ver were we re quiet you know a quiet lot all of us good by billie brownie bronnie said and 1 im in thankful to you for this little talk 6 you re welcome you re welcome brownie said master brown bear beatr as he turned to his work with wit great energy then billie brownie went to call on the ounce or snow leopard as he be Is usually called to call on him billie brownie went to a zoo my aly home was in the mountains of asia where there was snow the snow leopard told billie brownie and I 1 don t like zoo life 1 I ive ve been cross ever ener since I 1 came here and I 1 expect to be cross always I 1 re ve not a good disposition I 1 ve what you might call an ugly tion but here there are no mountains and never enough snow and it all makes males me mad even 11 ten when im free I 1 im m not what Y you ou d call a sociable pleasant friendly animal i no billie brownie I 1 only care to snarl at yon you I 1 don t care to talk pleasantly to you so billie brownie left the ounce or snow I 1 copard and went to call on the lions elephants and the rhinoceros and the monkeys all of these were far more fil endly and talked to billie of the good meals they had had and still expected to have and of friendly keepers and of admiring crowds of boys and girls who came to visit them and then billie brownie went home to tell the others of the animals he had seen on his ills trip copyright |