Show I 1 DADDYS ey mary graham banner OV ve A FINE BEAST oh boys boya and girls said mr air hippopotamus popo tamus to himself when you look at us and think our lly big heads hear Is and bod bodies lea are so 80 funny dont you see that we think you are funny with your you r tit lit tie llo bodies your little faces and your small heads dont you see that boys boya dud and girls I 1 iam am our buro a you i rill see what I 1 mean if I 1 ayou you stop to think you arent so BO used to us ua so BO you think were funny and were not used to you so iso wo we think youre funny that was tho the way mr hippopotamus talked hut but lie he liked children very much and lie ho 11 enjoyed U 10 having them conio come to tile the zoo to t 0 him and so ao did mrs I 1 hippopotamus olamus I 1 1 I often hoften talk that way thou though gh 0 ho he said but I 1 like children so much 1 1 I 1 1 Z I 1 t r I 1 I 1 s I 1 I 1 1 11 1 1 I 1 A V I 1 I 1 like children IF that I 1 out lont mind it if they do think im queer 1 I dont mind at all 1 I like to bave them look at me and enjoy my looke P yea 0 O agreed mrs mra hippopotamus 1 I too like to bo be in the zoo wh er a anni I 1 nm worth being gazed upon its ilko being a beautiful picture cletur a in a picture gallery to bo be an atilt nal in a zoo but its even more interesting for an animal Is alive and does doea things and a picture can only stay the samo same way unless some borne one else moves lt A picture always has to look the same way always must have the same expression 1 I feel sure children will alwa always yo want to look tit at us said sir hippopotamus po tamus yes xea said mrs hippopotamus and ahl alike I 1 like the zoo so well thail that I 1 like to have beautiful hippopotamus children conio come to tile the zoo my handsome son over yonder was seven years old the other day ile ho weighs a good deal not too much but about the right amount iles hes a good healthy hippopotamus lad illow how much does doea he weigh asked mr hippopotamus oil oh about four thousand pounds I 1 think said mrs afro hippopotamus yes lies a health healthy r lad said mr air hippopotamus there are a number of the family still living in africa arent the there re asked mrs hippopotamus yes replied mr hippopotamus I 1 there are in fact I 1 think the world the zoo africa all places where there are hippopotamus creatures are la moat t fortunate 1 I think the same said bald mra afro hippopotamus popo tamus im a lazy sort of creature 0 eadd ltd mr hippopotamus and im n etca ta and nd pleasant as a rule that Is 13 I 1 dont bother to be cross 1 I like to be quiet and not do 10 too much but it iam I 1 am made angry I 1 can bite liard hard and I 1 can do a great deal of linam I 1 but 1 I seldom get angry seldom only once or twice perhaps per hapa in a lifetime ali ah the hippopotamus la Is a fine cast beast a fine beast lie he ended ende d and mrs A rs hippopotamus splashed and said 1 I agree I 1 agree the hir amus Is certainly a fine beast |