Show D evenin fa ir la B 1 left ir V AIL A IL V I 1 wr nar a graham ra I 1 i a bonner 6 4 M wr ze HAPPY MR FOX ani aind to see lie hie kevia per esno a thing or two said mr fox lo 0 who ho lind imd only been in the lie zoo 00 oo for a fell fe months what ilo do you ou mean naked ohp other ot tier foxes want have hae boll ou smi I 1 shows you that the keel keepen knows it thing or two how it do you klio kini that aliat lie know more tsiun jhuti at tiling thing or two jaybe lie knows three or four things lings ti maybe mabe not that cuili 11 well ell ill explain of course I 1 could see from froin tile alie first lay day that I 1 cattle to tile zoo yoo that in he knew a great deal it about feeding elal ninis es fokes tor for it ft nit malian ilits not the slightest lit of difference to uio me how lie ho feeds other animals then I 1 could sep that lit lie knew nil all about tile lie ways of foxes foes ile he we were smart and clever cleer and that eliut lie hall to he smart and clever too if he j wanted to understand us j those were ere two of the lie things I 1 sav sa s1 tit at the very start of my zoo life heie hut but antol lately T have seen that lie ile knew n i thing or two more then at tiny any rate said tho th other foxes the lie keeper does know three or four thili ti lings gs so said mr air fox foi lie he does tell us what you iou have seen autel to make yen ou say nil all this the lie others asked because ISec aue lie he knows enough about the seasons to give us the kinds of ao 70 pray continue said the little fox food which are in ID season sir vos fox continued now when I 1 was free at this time of the year ear I 1 greatly enjoyed some applei and some borne blackberries 1 I also was not against a grape crape or t two wo or nore more though they were not always so easy to get did a grape or two ever satisfy you the others asked no I 1 always wanted more really sir mr fox answered 1 I added that I 1 also was not against having more youre not very ery particular about your our figures about how you add or to do arithmetic one of the little foxes said and his sharp bright edek twinkled oh no agreed mr fox for 1 I dont bother about them pray continue said bald the little fox 1 11 I did not mean to interrupt he politely added well I 1 was greatly afraid that the keeper beeper would not know that I 1 liked P these goodies at tills time of the year and that I 1 would miss them because I 1 was in the zoo but not a bit or of it he gave them all to tile me to all of us its he lias has really been generous genero iii and given them thein to us for lots of meals lately 1 I very much hope lie he Is not through yet for I 1 could stand a good man many more blackberries I 1 could he gives us its peanuts too wilk were new to me itle but liow how nice it 19 1 to get blackberries in the zoo just as u I 1 would it if I 1 were free grinned mr for F yes wo we agree with you sou the other foxes said it Is a pleasure plea suie that till keeper knows these things if he knew a lot of dull ahinga only kiil such as reading newspapers and talking to people and giving pieces of his mind out it be of any use to us when creatures give pieces of their mind out as you foxes express it mr fox said it usually means they the are cranky and want to scold cold onie sonie s one else they dont give many pieces of real mind I 1 can tell you lv been among people long enough to know that in fact ive never thought thou glit they should say that they were giving a piece of their mind to anyone when they were merely being abeln cross to that person that lif Is pretty much what it amounts to but im not going to worry about boalt that the keeper knows what I 1 tit am pleased that he should know and without my teaching him either cither yes hes a smart man our keeper and ana rm im a happy mr fox I 1 an am 1 00 so are we the others greed |