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Show IS? Daddy's SEveiiig Fairy Tale 11 90timC1 ft VOIMM MCVWMi UHlUM i '" 1 ' ' ORANQ-UTAN WINDY Windy had a visitor. Now, Windy was an orang-utan and his home was In the eoo. The keeper asked the lady who had come to call on Windy If she would like to watch Windy In the big room at the back of the monkey house and the lady said she would be delighted. She was very fond of the orang-utan pets at the zoo. 'Well, Windy," said the keeper, "show the lady to the big room." The keeper undid Wlndy's big cage and Windy hopped down and first of all shook hands with the lady. Then h led her by the hand to the big room, finding it by himself. Windy went along on two feet and also helped hlmsHf by his 6ther hand, which was not holding the lady's hand. When the lady spoke to Windy he understood her. They got back to the big room and the lady said: "Come, Windy, and sit by me." She didn't say the words as though giving a command. She didn't point to a place for him to come. She said It In a very ordinary tone of voice and yet Windy understood perfectly. He came over and sat by her and when she asked him to shRke hands with her he did so. Then she patted him and said: "Nice Windy. Windy, would you like a banana?" "Well, Windy understood at once. Be began sniffing about her as though to say: "Where Is that banana which you're asking me If I would like?" And the lady tald: "If you look In my big black bag over on yonder table you will find a banana in It" Wlndy hopped down and went over to the table. He Jumped up on the table, after having pulled a chair near to it so as to help himself up and then he got hold of the black bag. Now, the black bag had quite difficult catch which had to be snapped one way and then up another before it would open. At first Windy puzzled over It but soon he found the way It would open and then he looked inside. There were two packages there. 0n had sandwiches In It which the lady was going to have later on, and In the other were two bananas. Windy first took hold of the rack-age rack-age with the sandwiches. "No, not that one, said the lady. "The other package." And Windy then took hold of the other package and began to untie the string. "Let's each eat a banana," said the lady. And Windy came over to her and handed her a banana, and then he sat beside her and, taking over the TT1M "Then H Looked at Himself skin of his banana, as he ate It, they each had a little treat the lady and the orang-utan! lie wasn't greedy in the way be ate. He Just had a thoroughly good time. And then Windy wandered abont the room entertaining the lady. He hadn't been taught any tricks except those he had taught himself. And he understood all sorts of things the lady said to him not Just such words as be might have learned anyway. He understood her tones of voice and what she meant. And as they sat there in the room the children stood outside the window and watched them. They shrieked with delight to see the things Windy was doing. He went over to s water faucet and turned It on and took a wash-rag and cleaned his face. Then he dried It with a towel which was hanging nearby. Next ha took a toothbrush, which was kept there for him in a cap, and he brushed bis teeth, and then ha looked at himself in the mirror hanging hang-ing above. He brushed himself and came sgaln and sat by ths lady. Then he would stop for a moment or ao and the lady coald see be was thinking what to do next Just a anyone will stop and think and then begin to do something else. He pulled the window blinds up and down and he arranged the chairs In the room, he turned a somersault and he did some fine climbing, and when It was time for the lady to leave he took her back, opening the door for her. And when she left he politely shook hands with her. Oh. Windy was so polite and such a lovable, Interesting animal. Yes, he was all of that and even more. The lady loved him better thon any other animal In the soo and she knew them all pretty welL |