Show MARV BONNER coniing if maym H i i THE AFRICAN LION tell me your story said billie nillie brownie who had gone to tile the zoo to pay a call on the african lion billie brownie as you know was given permission somo some time aro aco by mother nature to go and talk to any of the members of her family h he wished to call on no lie was riven given the power too to understand der stand their dil different languages and he used to hear their stories and translate them into language others could understand and sent out word of his trips and his adventures and what he had heard they were always anxious to hear the result of ills trips back in fair fairyland Y and Brownl Brown cland leland where they used to gather about and hear what he had bad to say gay it was always an eager lot of fairies and brownies and gnomes and c elves I 1 ves who gathered about when billie brownie came back from a trip yes pray do tell me ine your story he said bald again to the african lion roar hoar roar said tile african lion 1 I will tell you my story roaring to me Is like laughing to people it beeps rue me cheerful clie erful it makes mo me feet feel gay it makes me feet feel like eating and it makes the rne feel like eating more morel I 1 sometimes I 1 roar because I 1 nm am mud mad and sometimes because I 1 am glad but anyone ought to be able to tell one roar from the other my roars are different just as aa people speak differently when they are arc cross from when they are pleasant and cheery in my days back in africa I 1 used to walk with my head down low never looking up unless I 1 was suddenly startled sometimes I 1 walked with some of my friends sometimes with my mate yes said the tha african lion sometimes tile the mrs lions all walked together and sometimes tile flie mr lions all walked together you changed about nodded billie brownie yes said the african lion if meat was scarce lie continued we would have attacked anything which came our way I 1 oh when meat was scarce we were dangerous oh shuddered billie brownie well its not scarce now aud youre all right anyway good ledi brownie 1 I feel greatly relieved I 1 do we used to have such a fine way of doing when we were free the african lion continued we would each roar lu in turn and when one had to stop roaring to get hla his breath I 1 another would continue with another roar which sounded all like one great long roar oh such daysi days such nighta such freedom i 1 such hunting I 1 such roaring V I 1 n but billie brownie hastily put on hla his invisible robe for people were comins coming into the lion house now 1 I must hurry ay away a Y said billie brownie thank you for your story I 1 know my friends will be interested hearing it goodby good by said the african lion you arent a bad little chap the african lion did not talk any more the lion house in tile the zoo was now filled with people they were listening to him now a as he began to roar to see bee that he was wn still in practice they had heard I 1 hla 1 Is voice and had not heard what he befi had d been saying but bat he had attracted thel them to the lion ion house the other lions understood that he be was thinking of the lays days of freedom and they began to think of them the M too and then they began to roar one lion utter after the other roared so from one end of the llon lion house to the other every ev ery lion was roaring rn aring As one took breath the other roared even louder to make up for the one who wits was short of breath for the moment and they acted just as they did when they were free a as 8 far as their roars wore were concerned for they were all thinking of the wild days which now were over but they had bad not left their voices behind them hem |