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Show ppfiii AAKV GRAHAA BONNER. - CDIIOHT IT VIVItN KFVVTlt UN. ON . A LOBSTER JOKE "How strange people are," said Mr. Lobster. "They only have two legs and they live on land." "How queer they must be," said Mrs. Lobster. "T h e y'r e the creatures who travel in ships, they're the ones who go fishing and they're the ones who talk funny fun-ny words all the time," continued Mr. Lobster. "They like to eat us, too." "Horrible crea- , tures ! shrieked The Ones Who Go M s Lobster Fishing. why dQ tey want to eat us?" "Because we're good to eat," said Mr. Lobster. "Oh, really ! That is why so many of the cousins and relatives leave us, is it?" She was not very old, you see, and she had many things to learn. "Yes," said Mr. Lobster, "they go to be eaten by the people. But we're a great luxury in most places, that is, we're very expensive, and we're considered a great treat, though there are some places where we're so plentiful plen-tiful that we are quite, quite cheap." "It is better to be expensive," said Mrs. Lobster. "We wouldn't be so apt to get caught if we were so expensive. ex-pensive. "We might miss being captured because be-cause there wasn't enough money to pay for us." 'Ah," said Mr. Lobster, "that may be so, but still if we were cheap and there were plenty of us we might not get caught because they didn't need us." "I'd rather think of it my own way," said Mrs. Lobster. "Also I like to think or myseir as an expensive luxury. lux-ury. "If I thought 1 were going to be expensive I would not mind so much being caught." "And we're red when we go on the tables as part of i salad, or all cooked up In a piping hot dish. ' said Mr. Lobster. "We're not green after we are captured, cap-tured, and cooked? Is that really so?" An Expensive asked Mrs. Lob- Luxury ster. "Iteally so," said Mr. Lobster. "That's why some people will say when they have very red faces that they are as red as lobsters." "As green as lobsters would sound more natural to me," said Mrs. Lobster. Lob-ster. "But people can tell the way the wind is blowing and whether a storm is coming by the way they say we have looked, acted, and pointed, so let's fool them this time." "Yes, let us fool them and have our good joke," agreed Mrs. Lobster. |