Show I I lv ping 6 n I. I Donner Bonner rp AIM I ZOO VISIT Not only did BillIe Brownle wish to visit the Shoebill but he ha quite a n alot alot lot of other calls to m make First of all he lie went to see Mr Os Os- Os Hello Mr Ostrich said salt Billie Bro Brownie Hello said Mr Ostrich Ive been angry he said yes es Ive I've had a regular regular regular reg reg- ular fit of temper r. r You know that old oil stor story about an nn ostrich burying Ing his head in the sand Yes said Billie I do O my best to tell people that that Is gossip and that It Isn't so Well Vell said the Ostrich I just heard some one say sar it now It made me so mad I hit lilt m my head hea this way and that way In a perfect rage You shouldn't nt call It t a perfect rage said BillIe Brownie Perfect Is something ideal and without fault faultA A rage Is always a mistake True said the Ostrich That was not the right word to use But then I am stupid I 1 a admit mit that BIllie Brownie didn't contradict the I Ostrich for he knew that the tile Ostrich spoke the truth about his bung beIng stupid I But it was hard to hear henr that old bit bitof bitof of gossip again Billie Brownie said Ill do still more to stop the gossip ossip Thank you sal said Mr Ostrich Youre a friend Nest BIllie Brownie went to call on some of ot the snakes for he wanted to tell them he lie was pleased with what they had done lie had heard that the Water Vater Moccasin Moc Moe- oc- oc casin Snakes the Copperheads the Boa Constrictors Coral Snakes and Cobras had given up their poison polson so that It could be made into a medicine or serum to save others from poisonous poison poison- ous snake bites He knew there were not many poi pol- poisonous poisonous snakes But he wanted to tell the poisonous ones that he thought it good of ot them to protect people from from snake-bite snake by giving them this p poison ison which could be made into a safety serum j I He Bc knew the keeper who had bad once been attacked by a ba bad snake and co n f t I r i Thank You Said the Golden Agouti who had been saved just In time b by bythe bythe the serum But when he reached reache the Snake h house use he found the snakes ver very angry We didn't want them to have haye It they said We like to keep our poi poi- son Eon They took It from us to help oth oth- ers era It It was not our doing Were We're as angry as can can be be hiss hiss BUlle Billie Brownie Brounie left the angry snakes and went to see the Agouti Youve got a splendid name said BUIle Billie Brownie I believe your full name Is Golden Agouti Is It not 1 Yes said the Golden Agouti It ItIs ItIs itis Is I come from South America though I have relatives who live Inthe in inthe inthe the West Indies too I can run as as quickly If not more quickly than a rabbit and I 1 look quite a bit lilt like a II rabbit I do my marketing at night when I 1 am free and during the da day I 1 sleep In the hollow tree trunks or In holes I I. I at the foot of ol old trees I 1 have five toes on each each of m my I swift-moving swift front feet and three on each of my my back feet I f like leaves and nuts and fruit for Cor food and bananas and sugar cane and ond delicious roots I My ly tall tail Is short Just as s a rabbits rabbit's but my hair Is coarse and not soft 1 Oh thank you ou thank you jou u the Golden Agouti said as mille Billie Brownie i offered him a banana Youre loti re ver very l kind I hope you think I was 1 hinting BUlle Billie Brownie laughed and salt said he lie I the Ag Agouti utI had tull fully earned a banana for giving gIvins him so much information in in I formation And then he called on a friendly I polar bear heal who WIO leaned leuned back on his rocks and I d caught goodies the children threw him Youre the nicest p polar lar bear hear Ive I've Brownie Most ever seen mUle Billie said suld of ot them are so cross But you e got gota a nice home here and that helps anti and then you OU do do seem to have an unusual disposition ri i r You dont don't say so the Polar Bear HellI smiled and and waved one of his el lovely big pa paws pas s |