Show DADDY 7 EVENING fAIRY TALE BONN AFRICAN PORCUPINE When I lived In Canada said the Canadian porcupine I was perfectly happy Of course If I am helping the zoo tOo along and being of great Interest I do not mind but I do not care for zoo life Ufe as I do for tor a life lite of freedom J nAh Ah what wanderings through the rt woods Roods I used to have the Canadian porcupine continued I 1 used to go gor r miles and miles aloe along through h dark low fir tree forests I u used ed to live liveo so ao o happily in the woods where people k co so seldom came And in the springtime when fishing parties would camp in the woods If It Ifa Ita ifa a dog bothered me I would soon punish him Mm It is not true that I throw my quills but if It a dog barked at me and t b ed to fight me well well well he got punished punish punish- ed and you know how I I dont don't like these untrue stories to get around that I throw my quills as the wind throws leaves around I dont don't do that but I 1 can give away some ome of ot m my quills if It I am frightened Gr annoyed That Is perfectly true Canada Canada where there Is beautiful beautiful beautiful ful cou country coury ry and where the forests are very wonderful I think a porcupine leads a very happy life Such a free tree wild life no bothersome society around one all the time Here nere in the zoo folks come and talk and find the animals chatter and make such sucha a fuss tuss I like a life which Isn't sociable sociable so so- a wooded life Ufe and Im I'm not goIng goIng going go- go Ing to pretend I like what I dont dODt Now the Canadian porcupine said all this tills to no one in ID p particular but the speech was heard Just the same by a good many of the animals some of the visitors boys and girls and by bythe bythe bythe the keeper That Is perfectly true said the keeper and he be told those who hadn't been able to understand Just what it was wase t the the por had said f 13 the African porcupine la is going to say something too said saidi saidy y H Hn Hl HL L i sn v V v W Ac n l pl wa Such a Free Wild Life the keeper fie Ho will have a different differ dller ent ant story to tell We mu must t hear his tory story too J So everyone listened to the story tory the African porcu porcupine had Ine had to tell It was wasa a little story of his own Ideas and so forth That Canadian porcupine said Raid the African porcupine to himself Is very very fussy tussy He doesn't care for tor the zoo He says it is so 60 very fine where he comes from up in Canada that he is s very homesick Now I am not BO so fussy My loty home Is In Africa as anyone might guess or know or Imagine because because because be be- cause my name tells a good deal At least It tells teUs two Important things The first one is that It tells that I come from Africa or that I am African African African Af Af- rican which Is the same thing and the second Important thing that my name mame tells tell IB le that I am a porcupine They name me well well the the African porcupine Its It's a good name a good sensible name and It tells folks what I am and how I look and quite a lot about meNow meNow meNow me Now little girls and little boys are often orten so foolishly named If It they were Just called North American n tall thin bo boy or South American short fat tat girl it would be so much easier ensler How now Is one to know anything from the name of Sally or Susie or l Kitty itty or Jane or Donald or John or James and Jack When one speaks of the African porcupine one knows what Is being spoken about but when anyone anyone anyone any any- one speaks of 01 a friend named Jack JackI I have no Idea They may be speaking of a little thin girl with golden curls and blue blueeyes blueeyes blueeyes eyes or the they may be speaking of a avery avery avery very tall tal girl with bla black k hair and brown eyes Or the they may be speaking of ot a fat tat boy with a red tie or a thin boy who Is very very tall and who has freckles Yes I have the ri right ht sort fort of 01 a name I have hav and Im I'm not In the least fussy I dont don't mind it here In the zoo In fact tact I 1 like it It and I dont don't miss Africa In the least not In the len least t. t But the Canadian porcupine who heard this said Africa Isn't Canada though and I do miss Canada and Its woods |