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Show II THE FEEDING OF CONSUL. I (As Told in The Junglo.) This is a tale Of terror Told when the twilight fails And the- monkeys walk together Holding each others' tails. Kipling. Within an hour the whole story was known in the Junglo, for the Bandar-log have their own system sys-tem of wireless telepathy. I' set it down just as the groat gray ape told it among the topmost branches. "Oo-oo-oo. Oh, my brothers, a terrible thing has happened to Consul, t& Consul our brother who Is In captivity. "Last week he had an awful experience. "He fell in with the Yahoos and spent some hours among them. "The Yahoos, my brothers, are creatures that were discovered by Gulliver. They have retreating retreat-ing foreheads and retreated morals, and on one i can associate with them long without being cor- ! rupted. I "When Consul our brother saw them he was homesick for the Jungle and they were trying so hard to make monkeys of themselves that ho took pity on them and associated with them on terms of equality." "Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!" all the shame-stricken Bandar-log wailed together. "Oo-oo-oo-oo!" "Ho sat at a table and ate with them and they hugged him and danced abut him and did ' all thpv could to convince him that they were J monkeys. I "But they couldn't fool Consul. I "Ho knew that no respectable monkeys or ev ( on humans noted as they did. No monkeys would I ever chatter as they did, or toll suoh jokes as I they did, or laugh at such things as they dJd. 1 Humans must despise such creatures just as much I as all respectable monkeys do. "And Consul was not long among them before hft saw that they paid little heed to the law of the Jungle which says: "'Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip Drink deeply, but never too deep; Remember tho night is for hunting And forgot not tho day is for sleep.' "Only tho last line of this law is really obeyed by them. "But just as our brother was becoming scandalized scandal-ized by their antics and jokes his keeper suddenly came to his resuce. When they saw that he was going to take Consul away, they bogged him not to and protested that ho was enjoying himself. " 'No! said the kee- t sternly. 'Ho muBt come! Not that I would inL-i-fore with the little animal's pleasure: but the morality of my circus must and shall bo kept up!' "Then they sang with a few changes the song prepared for suoh creatures by Mr. Kipling: " 'Here we sit in a silly row, Jabbering foolish things we know, Thinking of idiot things to do To amuse ourselves for a minute or two. Now we're going to never mind! Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.' " The Houyhnhnm in Town Topics. |