Show I Y YV V JN GRAHAM BONNER COt n h GIRAFFES We have cousins said Teddy Three-Horned Three Giraffe We have Indeed said Jack Three Three- Horned Homed Giraffe But ut so have others cousins added Teddy So they have added JackI Jack I wish you wouldn't always agree with me said suld Teddy I wont won't If It you dont don't want me to said Jack There there there said Teddy What do you mean by that asked Jack Oh Oil dear said Teddy Why do you say Oh dear asked Jack Im not a deer but a giraffe I know v It I know It it said Teddy sadly I didn't mean to call you a adear adear adear dear or a deer for deer for one means something something some some- thing sweet and affectionate and the theother theother theother other Is an animal I Just said Oh dear as an nn expression or a saying I meant when I said that and I also meant when I said there there there that you even eyen wont won't agree with me If it I dont don't want you to to and that Isas isas Is la laas as bad as if y you u did agree with meSo meSo meSo me So I see that I will have to do all the talking so you wont won't get the chance to agree I like to have creatures creatures creatures crea crea- tures take opposite sides and think different If It everyone thought alike there would be no such thing as talk a b I II Cant Can't Help Agreeing With You Some one would say that It was a nice day and Just the day for a walk and I then tIlen some one else would sa say bethought bethought be ha thought so so too and that would be the end of the conversation Unless they went for a n walk and they would walk instead of talk said Jack Ha ha ha laughed Teddy That ThatIs Is the first time you hav haven't nt agreed with me I like Uke that But I was going to tell you that our cousins have different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent names such as the horned five-horned giraffes the two-horned two giraffes and others like Uke us in IIi ma many y wn ways s But oh how glad I am nm that I am nm amIn amin In the zoo for where we come from way over In East Africa they dont don't care how they kill us They're Just cruel enough to kill for tor the sake of killing kUlIng but were we're safe In the zoo and oh how glad I am Well Nell said Jack I hate to agree with you as I know you dont don't like me meto meto to to but I cant can't help agreeing with you that I am glad that Im I'm in the zoo and cant can't be killed r Perhaps you wont won't mind me agreeing agreeIng agreeing agree agree- ing with you about that Oh no Teddy different Mr Giraffe In n his yard was talking to his son Once he lie said there was a story written There may have been en more but I am not sure I Oh I think there have been many many stories written and that the he world Is full of books said Young I Giraffe I I 1 have my doubts a about out that that said Mr Giraffe I dont don't see books around I only once in a great great while someone somo some one comes to the zoo carrying a book boole And I have thought that that must be the book In which was the story of which I am speaking There cant can't be books and books and amI the world cant can't be full of them for tr the zoo faI la fa lan a aa I a n part of the world and I am sure thE there re are no books around here There Th-er are houses and cages and cages yards and and yards and paths and driveways and walks and benches There nr are places where they I keep food and there Is wa water er to wash washout washout washout out our homes but books books oh oh no I have not seen books around Maybe there arent aren't books around our our homes said Master raster Giraffe but butI I 1 am sure there are lots of them for forI I have heard children speak of ot this and that story and of something they read here and of another r thing they read there Dont pay any attention to them said Mr Giraffe You might become a bright giraffe and that would never do Ve We are ure naturally stupid and It Is Isso Isso s so nice to be stupid It doesn't require any thought or effort or work But I know there was one story written once and I have always worried about It It was about a giraffe having hn a n sore throat and it was so bad because his throat thront was so long and und there was wasso wasso wasso so much to be sore It has always worried me Dont let It worry you said Young Giraffe a story Ive I've heard many ninny times even In n my short life Its It's people trying to be funny It la Is about as DS senseless to try to be funny and not succeed very well as DS It Is la to bo be boIt It stupid ld as we are I |