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Show ccntmi it vmim mviwu um . I i ANIMALS' TALK. "What I What Is this I hear?" nsked Larry, the monkey. "They say," Snookums, the monkey muttered, "that we cannot talk.' "Whatever do they menu by that?" iBked Larry. "Have they lost their wits or their brains? or what? Just let our keeper heur that and he will 4e mad. Just let him hear It. "Ho cannot bear to have untrue things said nbout us. He simply cannot can-not bear It, and then he tells tho real truth about us and Is delighted to invo the opportunity to, do so. "I suppose when you suy that 'they' toy we cannot talk jou mean that people say bo?" "That Is what I mean," said Snook-una. Snook-una. "Well, well, well," sold Larry, "that B too ridiculous! "I do hope that our keeper has tho ehonco to tell those people differ-intly. differ-intly. "Of course It Is truo wo do not ipenk the language people speak. Wo Jove our onfn wny of talking, but that loesn't mean that we don't talk. "It is Just as absurd, I think, for people to say that of animals ns It irould bo for the animals to toll American Amer-ican people that they can't talk be- "Whatever Do They Mean!" fuuse they don't speak like all the thcr people In the world, or to tell tho French people they can't talk because be-cause there arc people who speak lulte differently from them. "Now we all have our own wnys of talking. We don't use the words people peo-ple use, but wo can talk. "When wo aro unhappy wo mako tertaln sounds and words of our own. "When we aro frightened we havo thcr sounds to make. When we nro lensed wo have still others. When se nro playing we have others again. "And so have all tho animals. Tho jenrs hove different kinds of growls' for different things they menu to lay, "Tho deer can talk, oh so well I "The Chlipponzces and the .Orangutans .Orang-utans are great talkers and they know a lot, too. Don't peoplo know that? Haven't they over seen nnd icard n Chimpanzee and his keeper miking? "Then If they haven't, I Just wish they would! And I wish they'd como ind hear mo when I chnt with my teepcr. Ho understands me. "Ho knows what I wont and why I vant if, and when I want It. Ho mows whether I feel well or sick. Ho understands mo perfectly, nnd I un-Icrstnnd un-Icrstnnd him. Dogs talk, as everyone surely nust know I And Mr. Siberian Tiger talks. Ho told tho keeper how pleased ke wns the other day when tho keeper rubbed his back through tho sldo of tho cage. "He actually purred like a pussy rati "And the Wolves! How they talk whether they are hero In tbo zoo or ivhether they nro freol "ThojBcars all talk. And tho Itab-Plts Itab-Plts talk. Their thumping Rounds nro ivords, oh yes, Indeed. "Denvcrs talk. Prairie Dogs talk, md ono of them always guards when !ho rest aro playing ubovo ground nnd Iho ono who Is guarding certainly knows how to sny 'Danger when dourer dou-rer Is near. "Tho Striped Chipmunk talks, too. He can tell you that ho Is happy living liv-ing nbout tho rocky ground where he makes Ids home. He knows how to warn of danger, and ho talks of tho things he likes to eat. "Dour me, nil animals tnlkl Ot tourso they do I And every sound they mako means something. Our talks must bo translated into tbo language of peoplo if they're to understand what vo'ro saying, but If they study qs nnd our talk they'll be able to translate what wo havo to say. "I'm sure of that, for tho keeper can do so. Ah, hero comes my keeper keep-er now to have a real 'Julk with me I" "And with me, too," said Snookums, vlth a happy little 6qucnk. |