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Show ww m J$y MARY 3AHjQBfcQR PATIENT CHIMPANZEE. "Charlie was the name of a chimpanzee chim-panzee in the Zoo," said Daddy, "and he was ill. "He had fallen down when he had been swinging too hard on a trapeze and he had hurt his right arm. One of the bones had been broken and the doctor had to set it just as a grownup's grown-up's arm or a child's arm would have to be set if a bone was broken. "Now Charlie never murmured. He kept quijfc still and he was just as brave as brave could be. T will be a good patient,' he seemed to say. And he even grinned to show how very brave he was. "The keeper admired his bravery so much that he kept giving him better meals every day. Of course Charlie enjoyed these meals, but they were a little rich for a chimpanzee who could not exercise. And one day Charlie felt very sick. "It was a day when the arm was almost al-most well and when the bandages 'were ready to come off. Charlie tried to get The Chimpanzee Swallowed the Medicine. Medi-cine. up and play but he felt very sick. It was his tummy now and not his arm that felt so poorly ! His arm was all right. His tummy was all wrong. "The keeper saw that Charlie felt poorly. " 'It's all my fault,' said the keeper. 'I gave you too much rich food during the days when you couldn't exercise. I didn't mean to do it, Charlie, I didn't mean to. And now I'll have to give you a dose of horrid medicine. Poor old Charlie.' "The chimpanzee looked at the keeper keep-er out of his bright little eyes. He moved his head this way and that. 'Very sick, keeper,' he was trying to say. "But he knew too that the keeper felt very sad to think that Charlie was sick. And he also knew that he had eaten too much rich food. "But oh, anything, to -feel all well again! He was willing to be given medicine if he could be made well. He didn't just think of how horrid a taste the medicine would have, but he thought of the next day when he would feel all well. "The keeper felt badly indeed to think that it was all his fault and that he had meant to reward the patient chimpanzee. And now he must give him medicine. " 'I am sorry, Charlie,' said the keeper, keep-er, and from the look Charlie gave him he knew he understood. " 'Good chimpanzee,' -said the keeper. 'You fine, patient animal. You teach us all a lesson all of us for none of us take medicine well, children nor even grown-ups.' "The chimpanzee swallowed the medicine. He tried very hard not to make a face as he did so, but he took it all every drop and then he tried to lie quite still. For it was such horrid hor-rid tasting medicine. "The keeper still stood by Charlie with the empty glass and bottle in his hand. Then he put them down and took Charlie's head and stroked it again and again. "Charlie nudged up against the keeper, keep-er, both shoulders and arms feeling all right again. "'You will make me well, keeper,' he ioemed to say. 'It is not your fault you had to give me the horrid medicine. medi-cine. Dear keeper, you know that by tomorrow I will be feeling like my old self again.' "So gentle, so good and so patient ,had Charlie been all through his whole sickness and now he still had to have another day of It now when his time should have been up. And Charlie never made a murmur. For monkeys nnd chimpanzees are the most patient creatures when they are sick and tase their medicine. And the story of Charlie is true." "Oh, Daddy," said the children, "we never take medicine without making a fuss. How shameful to think the chimpanzee chim-panzee did not make any at all." "I made a great fuss when I was a uhild, too," said Daddy. "Yes, I must idmit it, but the whole truth is that the chimpanzee would have put anj jrown-up or child, to shame!" |