Show PORCUPINE PARTY I The hairy badger from South Africa had had his dinner Then hs h had had hada I Ia a delightful bath or spray from flom the tile hose The keeper had given him this and he had enjoyed It even more than the visitors who vim had looked on The hairy badger thought he was very polite to I It t such a lot of ot people watch him having his bath Yes he be thought he was most obliging The white nosed coati from South America was having n a beautiful beautiful ful tul time talking in his tits own grunting fashion to one of ot the visitors who had come to the zoo He had had a tike nice dinner and was feeling particularly well He had had a n lithe lIWe chopped beef beet too with the rest of his dinner And it was nice to be a great pet Oh yes that was particularly nice The striped tailed dog and the V white throated sapajou were together as they always were The Tile white throated sapajou looks exactly like a monkey and is a little animal from South America The sapajou Is just like a monkey In all his looks The sapajou had had his dinner and he had lead had a little meat for he be was quite fond of that Everything he had had he had put first in his pan of water In much the way the raccoon family will wash all their food Now the sapajou and the striped- striped tailed dog had become great friends tO t l U r l r l l lI l I r f A UA Splendid Feast No one knew just why But the best of friends they were wele And so they lived together In n their zoo home as they had alwa always s 's been together together together to to- gether since the they had hod first seen each other How happy they were together too tool 1 Only It puzzled people to see the sapajou sapajou sapajou sapa sapa- jou and the dog in a little zoo home homeside homeside homeside side by side 1 The sapajou W was S much interested Inthe in inthe inthe the visitors and sat up close so he could see them all and his little eyes looked so mused as us though he be were enjoying himself so much He grinned at the keeper every time the keeper went by and the keeper would speak to him and the sapajou would look much pleased The tailed striped-tailed dog too had come from South America And as the watched the people he said to himself elt This is a wonderful show seeing all the people pass along And gracious me tike how many children chil dren there are Well I must say I find ups grown and children very ery amusing to watch Yes they cheer me up up altogether altogether I really am al always s 's sery very ery cheerful But they make me feel so BO Jolly joUy and so amused Now while all these animals were enjoying themselves in their various wa ways Ts the four yellow haired porcupines porcupines porcu porcu- pines were having a party And they were not pa paying a scrap of attention to the They sat satIn satIn satIn In a n circle with their backs hacks turned to the people In the very center of the circle was wasa wasn a n little baby porcupine And a more cunning little creature you never neer could see see Im I'm sure H He was very small not small not not so very much bigger than a guinea pig and yet et ethIs his parents were such enormously big porcupines All of the four porcupines were er very er very large The little one was sitting up too Just the way the they nil all did and anti he lie was nibbling at lettuce and carrots and eating ver very up grown food for a n little fellow only two weeks old For that was all he was Ills His parents parents parents par par- had been born in Alaska and his uncle and aunt tend had been born in the United States but he lie had been born In the zoo and he found It Itus was us very cry nice A little porcupine Is like c a little guinea pig in the WU way it can cnn eat anything anything any any- thing right aWa away There was a splendid feast for tor the porcupines and some sOllie of them were finishing oft off with a n dessert desselt of bread which many of the tho animals like as a dessert Oh yes es It was was a 11 real porcupine party part but blit the one who felt elt like the guest of ot honor was pus the tho dear little baby porcupine with with his funny little black body and his little pour poor attempts at at- tempts ut quills I But some day he would have e enormous enor enor- ones like me his pa pal rents In the meantime It t was enough h to eat snail and f at and ond enjoy life lite And the he people looked hooked through n it space between two I f If the lie porcupines s so the they could 0 II Iel see seethe the he Ii little th little fellow of lt tilt for i zoo |