Show DADDYS ry tau macgraham mary Mar Graham banner nowr sr SPRING BUCKS STORY tin im the springbuck from south africa all right no ono one says youre not mot but im tile alie at eed buck from south africa were both dinall antelopes 1 I have reason for my name naine said the springbuck alave ilave you ou Int indeed leed remarked tile Reed buch who wr ailed very much to ask what it was bt did not want to appear too curious an and too much in terest pd 1 lieve repeated the well if you feet fed like telling the reit rac son I 1 wont stop you said euld the bindt not that I 1 cure care especially one wily fsr or tie oie other you know you want to hear amid the springbuck oil oh very well it if you say go ao n the Reed litick III 1 I will A cree I 1 like to bo be pleasant you would ill like ille e to hear the reason muttered the springbuck uck well I 1 will tell you ali and at that the almost jumped with joy but stopped just in time for ho he did not want to flatter the SprIng springbuck huck too much 1 I was named my iny flue and honorable name of springbuck and so were a at my family faintly because we can s spring pring high im a springbuck into the air when we are hurrying hurry lne or running to get anywhere so instead of being an ordinary buck im a springbuck meaning im a buck who can spring hiegh hot hol my aly name has nothing to do with the season of tile the year it t dont just appear during the us as tile the buds and spring blos soma do da oh no that would not sult suit me at all im a tho the other said bald but it mean that im a buck who can read my bly numo name Is spell differently in the tint place and in the second place it would never do a buck any good to be able to rend read 1 I am named after the reeds that grow in the water for im a waterbuck waterbeck wa and it one too it if anyone should ask me no one did ask you said the springbuck 11 it if anyone should ask aak me I 1 bar 6 my answer all ready replied the reed buck proudly my imy horns are small but nice and curly naturally curly like curly hair only horns said the springbuck 1 I have finely curved horns said the tor for I 1 pride myself on being abeln cross crosa an and d good looking 1 I took a broom the keeper left fiere hem and broke it all to pieces he tried to get it from me but he h cou lle lie tried and tried and tried too its nil all right to be pleased with your looks but there Is IlD nothing thing to be b proud about when you are so cross you should be ashamed of that said the springbuck well I 1 am so thankful im in the zoo arid away froni from where the leopards leobarda leo parda and jagears jaguars po go a hunting 11 the said he was thankful too not far away two miss angora goats were talking my mother has just L been een telling ane e said one that I 1 was waa born in the zoo last spring she said I 1 stood up when I 1 WIB ws half an hour old on my own feet and that I 1 was wag born with my eyes wide open its as all are it was nice to heir that I 1 did tile the right thing my mother told me said eald the second 0 nd miss bliss angora that slie she saied eticy a gread deal of wool after I 1 came and was nicely clipped so slie she have a new cont coat so did we all bald a mrs an gora by this time all the anborn bonts were talking together they were wera ing of at the young ones who camo came in tho the spring of the duys days back tn in asia which the older ones remembered about the ones who had not boon born tn in the zoo |