Show V enin J bonn ZIP THE CRAZY LOON billie brownie had always wanted to talk to the bird known as the loon or great northern diver direr lie ile had heard the expression as crazy as a loon and lie ho knew it was always used when people did silly crazy things lie wondered it there was any truth in the expression or how it had started in the first place so lie he decided he would call upon a loon on his way there lie wondered just bow ile ho would talk to the loon it was rather a difficult thing to go to a creature ind and say look here old chap they say n person Is as crazy as a loon when that person has been behaving foolishly Is it true are you about as crazy and foolish as a creature can be yes it would be extremely difficult to say that and yet that wass was just exactly what billie brownie wanted to ond find out lie ile puzzled and he puzzled as to the way lie would begin the perhaps he be would start I 1 in ll 11 by saying something about foolishness bess and then say my ns though it had just occurred to him ky by the way they tell nn me youre a bit foolish yourself lie was afraid thou though ii hat flint lie he would not be able to say this ills in such a way may ns as to make it sound as though lie hall bad just thought of if then lie wondered if 1 lie be could talk about crazy things people hail had done and add 11 1 I aront suppose youve ever done anything silly have you but he was afraid that might not do that might sound as though ire had meant the conversation to lead up to that very subject as wits was really the truth I 1 ile he know what to do and even after hl lie saw the loon he be did not know what to say lie ile decided to himself lie he would wait awhile and see whether the loon seemed sensitive or touchy or whether he appeared as though lie would not mind what was talked of between them the loon did seem heern very nervous lie he was billie brownie soon saw a most marvelous icar diver and lie he did his marketing with great ease and ful ness JYo ull forgive tile me if im a bit res restless t the loon said its my disposition tf billie bille Brownl ewas delighted fiere was the loon introducing the subject 1 billie have spent silent so much billie brownie was delighted time worrying and puzzling over what he might inight suy say are iou so restless then billie brownie returned return eil 1 I suppose your family all liae haie tile same kind of a disposition billie had long ngo ago discovered that once a creature wits was started lit in talking about himself there was no effort about making him continue yes luyts vc ne have much the same disposition divided up among the members of the family the loon sald said billie smiled to himself the loon spoke ns as though dispositions were viere divided up as homes and gardens might be divided you see we w luve have always been restless put but were not crazy when were free were pretty foolish nt at times now and again hut but it Is when were put lit in close quarters that we go crazy yes we go plain crazy or fancy crazy it if prefer to speak of it in taftt wily they do not keep us lit in the zoos because we go crazy lose our appetites and all our energy we mind perhaps it if we had bad quantities of room but quantities of room means to be free it Is when we lime hale been in zoos and when we have gone crazy that people have seen us and hare said 11 see those crazy loons how flow very very crazy they are so we have the reputation of being crazy crazy as a loon has become quite an expression chit I 1 must go co for a dive and swim now billie brownie glad you called as the signs at either end of the town siy any to tile the automobile people dhove come a visiting and Br brownie olnie went home with his question au answered without having bad to ask the question |