| Show MARY GRAHAM n unior springtime IN ZOO good said sir mr yak from asia good morning said mr cape buffalo falo from south africa 1 I have a pleasant enough dispose tl ton on said sir mr yak but I 1 lint am an n noyce 0 if anyone tries to pull my great ion ions shaggy bida you baie bae such heavy hair said sir mr cape buffalo it is 13 truly magnificent ent ah yes said eald mr yak tak my hair Is very nice and very fine when I 1 think of the effort some creatures go to so as to have whiskers and beards and mustaches and such things I 1 have to smile emale and ladles have their hair treated so it will be long and little girls wish they had bad as long curly hair as other little girls they know it Is all very funny to me for I 1 naturally have long hair it Is very ver y shaggy and very heavy and every one notices it about me right away 1 I RM am a water buffalo battalo but talo it anyone should ask me said mr cape buffalo and I 1 used to be a beast of burden but im resting now and having a good time the keeper says that either of us will run straight into a person without noticing them at all were rather stupid in that way but that matter it Is toe the now and that seems to be a most exults time in the zoo kb ah I 1 do not bother about the springtime said mr yak 1 I do not mind the bad weather for I 1 have such a nice heavy coat ah said mr elephant Ele pliant we like the spring for we are made to look so beautiful in the springtime ali ah yes great things are done to us we haie bae our toenails enalls to cut and wo we have our teeth brushed and we have our skins oiled and we tire are fixed up in most beautiful shape tor for the summer of course I 1 do not mean that we are not of beautiful shape in any case an elephants shape Is something to wonder at and admire but we ire are made to look our very best and an elephants best Is pretty fine of course as ive explained before sir mr elephant continued when we are in the free state we cut our palls nails by climbing and walking and we oil our handsome shapes by going into the native marshes where there Is much oily water so they try to give us as much the same came kind of treatment as they can in the zoo TA 1 I think mink too said bald mr camel that wa most creatures are like houses house What whatever eier in the world do you wean mean asked mr elephant why houses are cleaned in the springtime and they go in for a regu Is j 1 I naturally have long hair lar spring animal cleaning here in the zoo true true said mr aleph elephant ant there was more sense to your speech than I 1 thought there was at first because of course oure not noted doted tor for bour our brains not noted for them said eald mr camel and I 1 dont even fuss in the same way as the rest of you do tor for the summertime I 1 do shed my coat it Is true but I 1 do not get all fixed filed up for the summer the keeper helped me in my shedding mrs camel Is rather nervous these days she Is so proud of her hild that site she Is constantly afraid something will liappes to it well thes a good sort sorl and the childe what dear soft little bumps he be has for we are of the Duc trIan family with two humps apiece lie ile Is such a dear camel child and looks as though he were nothing but legs legal I 1 all ali wild said pat fat the clatl or ant bear mr and mrs aoudad tire are here no longer for they are sit nt another zoo I 1 miss them and aad their interesting ways but they thea say that are not in the market now meaning there are none to be bought tor for the lie zoo they speak of them as g they were eggel ego s I 1 ali ah I 1 was a very sad bad coati for it while MBA aster naster was away for long time V d know I 1 ant am named fat because I 1 am so fat and well but I 1 got thin and eat when be h was gone cone when he came back I 1 was all well again we certainly love our master joey r ey the chimpanzee and larry tha th monkey and I 1 all love our master but it Is time to stop talking 1 now what rood good zoo chats we w have I 1 |
