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Show BADDY'S pi EVENING m& FAIRY TALE Mary Graham BnnriEr I LION WAYS The lions always call to each other when a storm is coming as I have often told you. At night in the zoo they roar and call out to each other. Always they call, always they answer. They do it in the jungle or the zoo. But in the zoo they are not so friendly. friend-ly. Two of the king lions or two of the prince lions cannot be kept together. to-gether. They would kill each other. So would two of the queen lions. Sometimes Some-times the king and queen or a princo . and princess will be friendly, but they do not like their own kind In the zoo. j The male hates the male, the females fe-males other females. This Is the zoo i way. Out In the Jungle they are too busy hunting for food to be so warlike with I each other and the zoo isn't their natural nat-ural home, of course. But still they call to each other at night in the zoo. Just the very way they would if out in the jungle. And when a storm comes they warn each other of danger, although if they were put together even at such a time they would fight. It was the following morning and the big storm was over. Princess Lion - was looking at the cubs in the next cage. She sat there with her paws crossed and her big eyes looking very fierce. The cubs were playing with their breakfast of meat bones and fine red meat. "Oh," thought the princess, "if 1 could get my paws on one of those cubs and tear him to pieces." "I hate my children anyway," said Prince Lion the first, who was pacing up and down in the cage at the other side of the princess. As he talked he swung his head as though to tell her how much he meant what he was saying. "Oh," he continued quite cheerfully, "I always " hate the children. The Princess Lion Was Looking at th Cubs. mother Hon keeps thera from me. She seems to like them. "Now, my cousin, the cat, Is Just the same way. He hates kittens. It's only the mother cat who likes them. "And even though I'm a lion and a cat is a cat used to living under stoves and by the fireplace, still he Is my cousin and there are many qualities quali-ties alike about us." "I thought he was a cousin of the tigers," said the princess. "So he is," said the prince. "Rut he's my c lusin, too, for we are what they call the 'cat animals,' the leopards, leo-pards, tigers and lions." "1 wouldn't object to the cubs," said the princess, as she kept watching watch-ing them, "if they were my own. "What I mind is seeing the little things and knowing they belong to the queen. "I am so Jealous of her anyway." And the princess snarled and gave a deep grumble, to prove she meant what she said 1 |