Show aw n v v v i y x kiy fairy tal fial fl a Jt donner eS wap abw m MOTHER MOTH en DROWN BROWN BAT my aly dear little children said mother brown dat to her two but bat babies you must hung hang on oil tight tigh t to your mother while she carries you ym about with lier her you roil tire ire not yet two weeks old find and you must stay with mother adli the time illing hang on tight and you will be safe its as I 1 lly fly through the air clr por for every night I 1 must go a some like to do their marketing early y in the morning it Is 13 then that t they y think they get the best pick of of everything put nut mother brown but bat likes the early evening arst for then the in sects beets tire are out anti the markets are filled with delicious goodies of course I 1 mean the insect markets whon I 1 of our markets when you are a little older I 1 I 1 will leave you nt at home while I 1 go marketing and yuu you will lie be safe waiting for me but when you are arc so very tiny and so BO very helpless mother mus you with lier her all the elmp yes my babies such are uio the anth er bat ways alien n you yon tire ire three months old you will be able to look out for yourselves ali ah how hov splendid you will be then and how low much you will know but you mother brown sat bat flew off wont be your mothers little babies liny ily longer und end I 1 will miss you my little loves 11 mother brown bat hew flew off for insects such delc delicacies acles ns as site she knew how to pick out sho she knew how to feel things before she even touched them oh ob mother brown bat was not stupid and atto they were home again and before mother brown bat wnm wn ire ready ady to hang herself up by the hind feet tor for a comfortable days she had more to say to her babies and in her funny little squeaking voice she said oil oh my babies it la Is very unfair the way we are talked about it iq very unfair indeed they say we are dirty and we arent dirty I 1 you know they think it Is horrible it we como come around because they say we are so BO dirty and ana its untrue gossip what it Is it hurts us particularly ticul arly asbe are so very clean you yon know how ive taught you to take such care of yourselves anti and how cleanliness Is something we roust must all think about you must lick every part of your body you cin can possibly reach and you will find you can just about reach every part of 0 it by twisting and turning and getting into funny positions then you must take your splendid claws of your hinti hind feet nod and comb your hair neatly and thoroughly A brown dat bat would be a disgrace to rat bat circles it if he take cara anro of himself we all do every one of us why people say we are dirty ido I 1 do not know saye save that once some one must have sold said so who knew nothing about us so many talk who dont know of what they hey are speaking and so the gossip spread and when you think of the lose insects acts we eat and of the wonderful help we are to people it seems very sad and very unfair and very tery unjust that people should shudder when they see us and should say blugh ugh see the horrid dirty bati but some day they will know bet ter I 1 hope and in the meantime for our sakes attl and tor for our own pride and for our own love of cleanliness we will be as neat as we can be I 1 goodday good day my babies I 1 and abd mother grown brown ent dot ancher and her babies went to sleep for daytime was breaking |