Show D Daddy's Daddys 1 lEJ a i Evel II I I Fairy T T Tale le jy AARY GRAHAM BONNET i- i t nwe ELE ELEPHANTS ELEPHANT'S HAN S 40 BANANAS It I 1 eat them every day y said laid the Pygmy Elephant Tea Yel every day I J eat at forty fortI bananas That hat la is a good appetite for tor or a littie littie lit lit- lit lit- t tie Ie t two and w oa o-a o n d d-a- year old d Pygmy Pygmy my mr Elephant to toha 4 k ha have ve Of ot course you yon might not say lay I J Iwas Iwas was so 80 v very tiny k but for tor an elephant ele ee- pliant I am small smaIL t I am am thirty thirty- nine Inches high it ii at present and I weigh four tour hundred hun hun- dred pounds I grow rather Every Day I Eat slowly which Is to Forty Bananas Banana n n nice l Ice c e for t then h b e en n creatures dont don't come up to me each time they 8 see e me saying Dear me Pygmy Elephant how bow youve you've grown Why JO you yoO were a little thing last time I saw 1 you I 1 hardly recognized you yon at first What a fine big elephant youre you're becoming No they No they cant can't say that tome because because be be- cause I grow gro so 80 slowly When I am seven or eight years old old old-I I 1 am of ot age age age- that Is I 1 am full By ny that time I 1 am about six feet teet tell talL Ive seen seen children at the zoo an and they've thought they were ere eating a great deal If they ate three bananas Even tw two they thought a a good deal But not I 1 eat forty a day dal That's an appetite worth having At least It Is worth It to me me for tor I get the bananas It would not be worth having If It I 1 didn't get th the ba bananas 1 nu I eat apples and oranges oranges rangel and tip flea tipa a and dates and prunes too Every Everl day I also drink five live cans of ofa a special kind of ot condensed milk I dont don't do things In an any little small way wal Nothing small about my power to drink milk I have o oatmeal for tor breakfast every once In awhile and I eat rice pudding sometimes So you see Im I'm quite an eater enter But Dut look at me and see Bee how bow strong I 1 look my gray skin akin look In the best condition And my gia gray ears H lie ii lier s so r flat against my body though they thel wave a Utile little and flap a little as al I t run and play I belong to the Pygmy Elephant family and we never grow as the usual usual elephants do I came from West Vest Africa Af At- rica In the Congo but her here herg I find It lt very verr nice There Is 19 Alice she AlIce she Is a regular usual tull-g tull grown full own elephant She likes likes' me She has taken a fancy to me and the big elephants are all nice with n me me e. e But nut Alice would like to pretend that she was wal my mamma mamma and that I Iwas Iwas was her child I 1 will have none of ot that The one I 1 love best of all nil Is my keeper keeper bet bet better ter than any any ny of ot the big elephants though I I am mannerly and polite I to them but not exactly affectionate I will follow tallow my keeper keeper anywhere He ne calls calls calls' me Tiny j. j It It Is hIs bis pet name for meI meI meI me I am really a a quite unusual elephant ele eie- African African elephants are never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen so much as 88 the Indian ones and then n Im I'm Iman an unusual African elephant But Dut I 1 cannot talk to you much more I cannot tell anything more about myself I really wont won't be able to do any tricks for tor you or to play and show you how I t do that nor anything else elle Just now You Vou see I must begin my dinner 1 I have hav to take a good deal of ot time over It It You Vou can understand that If you ate all I did l all 1111 the milk and the forty bananas I Iam Iam Iam am sure you would find that t your eating took up quite quire a little time anyway The Pygmy Elephant Elephant Elephant Ele Ele- looked at atthe atthe atthe the people I and put his trunk In 1 his mouth mouth not all 1111 the way of ot course but just a little as 08 a person will put a linger Unger lingerIn In their not for tor any ny reason reason rea rea- son Bon In particular Then he saw They T Tho h o u g a h t the keeper coming com They Were Wert Eat ing lug and be he turned t In Ing n o g a Q Ore Great r. r at t his back upon the Deal people Forty FortI banana bananas a I day dar were more Important important Im im- port lint to him than fort forty visitors Forty visitors came and went away awa forr Forty bananas came or were brought to him and stayed until he be had bad eaten them all That wes was the difference between bananas banana and visitors Or visitors or at least It was one on of ot the differences 1 |