Show edwy 5 eve rm m dairy tale VW MY GRAHAM baffler 5 connal H wittum won BABY ZEBRA ive named you julia sold said queen dess bess to lier her child of course it was the keeper tat li the zoo who told me t hot lie thou thought that would be a nice name naino tor for you yon and I 1 think so too I 1 thought so the moment d lie spoke of it now julia was a baby zebra and her mother was a grownup grown up ii ebra A zebra its as you know Is 18 something like a horse with sirle stripes 1 I suppose pose there are some people who think a baby zebra was the sweetest thing in the world but I 1 dp do mother zebra said sometimes now she was called mother zebra though of course queen bess was nas her real tiame name as ive said before your father julia zebra la Is known no 08 george first does docs not that tha t make him sound regal regal means kingly of course youre enjoying hay too now oh yes youre eating very grownup grown up foad an and d yet you are only a little girl only a little girl your father Is eleven years old you TOU see that walies wakes jilin him very wise and important there are creatures af f eleven years old who may not be wise and important butto but to my zebra mind there Is nothing much finer in the way of on an agenlian aget lian the age of eleven the king your father thinks hinks that my age Is ii a line fine age iam I 1 am nine ifune years old we are both from copl colony south africa which Is far for far away from here there are nine zebra cousins here in the zoo which to is a splendid number of course I 1 think eleven would bo be a nice number of zebras to have here bere and perhaps 6 its a nice world send for two m more ore some som time to make the number eleven 1 I really think file though 11 that nine Is all nal right its as a number when it means the nui number tiber of cousins cousing wo we llave have I 1 here ier C and eleven Is 19 the finest age to be two of our babies have been div given en to other zoos which Is quito quite fair I 1 suppose we were given solli something ething in tills this z zoo oo 00 in exchia exchange an exchange is fair even K H it means exchanging zebra and other fine beasts one of tile the young zebra children was sent to belgium wil which lellis Is far far away across fill an ocean and I 1 ti then len still more of a dis distance tonce to be sure I 1 do not BO a much of the distance for I 1 come clinic here from a greater distance still but people thank that Is far away the other baby zebra was sent to it a zoo in tills this country but you are to stay here with your mother r for you are your mothers julia baby girl garlt I 1 1 I knew khew you bod were going to look just as you do how did you know that mother zebra asked julia zebra A little litile bird told me sald said mother hother zebra A little litte bird repeated julia yes said mother zebra a 0 bird but when I 1 sity guy that I 1 sh say y 1 ij as people do who use tha expression when some one knows known a nice secret they are apt to say oil oh a attle little bird told me ine they mean that it Is a 0 very nice little secret just such a one its as a dear little bird would tell dear me dear me continued mother lother Ti zebra what it a handsome bumblebee bumble bee I 1 do see over yonder iles hes haild some but I 1 hope lies ile not coming colln g to call on roe me lie he lias bai a most magnificent black and goldun golden suit it looks like a very expensive and rich and magnificent beo bee suit stitt jie ile roust must have pal paid a it great deal of bumblebee bumble bee beo money for it all ali hes not to call here ile ho see a 0 flower over y yonder ader well and good well sad and good its a nice world ant it asked julia as 0 s looked P egut dut her I 1 to be better said mother zebra Cou lunt be bet better terp |