Show ac I 1 y sy MAR BONNER 1 I U WHOM DRAGON FLYS BOAST it amused tile me sold said tho the dragon fly to billie brownie 1 I 1 nm glad it does hald 11 brownle for it Is always nico to hear of creatures being ani ed but I 1 anit am sure I 1 do not know what it Is that i amuses you you know you told rue me you liae have simply told tile me n R number be r of llimos ahnes that at it sinuses you true sold said the dragon fly 1 I haunt told you but I 1 will vill good exclaimed brownie Biown te yes continued tle the dragon fly 1 I will all explain what aliat liat it Is that amuses tile me and I 1 boast about it too I 1 cant help boasting it a little and I 1 hope you will forgive me oll oh nil all right said gold brownie 1 I suppose nil 1111 of us boast a little nt at times some more than others and some t nore more often than others other awen when some will say bay that they never boast thoy they anre boosting boasting a bit for they tire are boasting of the fact that they do not boast but pray explain yourself dragon fly it Is about airplanes began the dragon ply fly they ore are a wonderful invention oi of course 1 I often think to myself that if I 1 were a person I 1 would certainly want to go vp lip in one I 1 bo be beppy walking along the ground as they spend so much of their time in doing 1 I dont wonder that they took look up when they see airplanes and that they admire them thein 1 I can easily understand all that it takes no effort for nio me to io unar stand their admiration of airplanes if I 1 were always on the ground I 1 would took look up at in the airplanes and would say how hov wonderful the airplanes looked it seems only natural to me to see bee people looking up nt at those great big human birds swooping along and flying through tile the air As long its us people wings themselves airplanes are the next best thing now my wings arent like the wings of an airplane but it amuses ai 1 I dont blame you for boasting said billie f me when I 1 think of how proud they are of their airplanes and that tha t tit they ey cannot do sopi ething I 1 can do what Is that asked billie brownie im coming to that im coming coining to said the dragon fly 11 pray pardon me if I 1 seem impatient t antto to hear said billie brownie certainly said the dragon fly 1 I like to have oil an interested listener it would not be very nice if you began ito to talk about soi something else if such a thing happened I 1 would feel that I 1 had bored you a and nd had bud not ninde made myself interesting I 1 yes it amuses me that people cannot dr do what I 1 can do no mutter matter how low I 1 drop to the ground or even if I 1 am dropped my body alwayn rights itself 1 I never drop dran any other way now airplanes dont do that they go down head bead first and make poor landings or aney ilive uve accad accidents ants which make them laud in frightful condition but nut not so with alth mr drugon fly always AIM ays always always my body rights itself and ft hat particularly Etin amuses useF me continued mr dragon fly la is that tile the people have tried everything in the world to make their airplanes do just this and though they have studied our wings and the way we e net act they cannot accomplish thi this 1 s fact they have tried and tried and tried to me it Is so eav wy y a thing they can watch me all aill they paiit baat they cun call copy anything I 1 do and there will be no objection raised nut but they cant ahls r they been able to u as 4 yet at affy any rate and I 1 cant ant help rousting about abouel this billie balke brownie leolly find and truly I 1 cant help boosting boasting just a little 1 I dont blame you ou for bou boasting sting said billie brownle brownie 1 I really dont |