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Show AARY GlWWA-DaNtR. GNU AND GOAT There are few of lis left." wild th White-Tailed Gnu. Me looked like 5 j a very ujly sort of a horse and hi face showed that he whs cross and did not care for anyone. "I don't suppose' sup-pose' many will mind," answered the WhlteRenrd-eddnu. WhlteRenrd-eddnu. They were named these names as you ciin easily guess because be-cause one's tall was white toward the end and the other had a j funny -looking benrd which whs white. Th Whits-Tailed Qnu. j "I don't suppose many would mind If there weren't any of you or your kind around, my dear," said the White-Tailed White-Tailed ("Sun. "Yes, I can return the compliment." "Well, none of us are so very pleasant," pleas-ant," Biilil the Whlte-Iiearded film. "That Is true enough. Int why should we he 7 I wouldn't care to make the effort to he friendly and nice." "Neither would I." said the White. Tailed Gnu. "They say It comes quite naturnlly to some creatures," said the Wlilte-Rearded Wlilte-Rearded Cinu, "What! To he friendly and nlcel I can't understand It," Bald the White-Tailed White-Tailed (inu. "They say that the snakes are cross when they are young Rnd that they become far more pleasant as the days or the months or the years go, by. They're cranky when they're quite little and squirming and wriggling. Hut when they're bigger they are often extremely ex-tremely pleasant. Some crush creatures crea-tures some bite creatures and poison them, but the ones who don't do either of these things (and there are many who don't) grow more friendly as they grow older," said the White-Bearded Gnu. "So, Tve heard," said the White-Tailed White-Tailed Onu. "I heard the keeper telling tell-ing that to some one the other day ) and he also said: " 'Hut the Gnu family grow crosser every single day.' Ah, that shows how sensible we are. For as we grow older we know enough to become crosser all the time. And our reason for this Is, "'Why be pleasant when we can be cross?'" They did not talk after this, but In a yard not fur away was a goat His name was Tan. "I am an Imported Im-ported goat," he said. He had been glvpn his name because he was tan In color, almost a reddish tan. "I don't know what you mean by that," said Billy Goat, In the adjoining adjoin-ing yard, "unless you mean you're S mighty cross goat." , "I don't mean anything of the sort," said Tan. "But you are cross," said Billy. "Ah, yes, that I am," agreed Tan, shaking his head, as though It pleased him. "I won't let anyone come In my yard. None of the other goats are good enough for me. I have to be ke by myself." "What you say Is perfectly true," said Hilly, "but do these things mean the same as Imported?" "No, no. no," said Tan, shaking his head again so that his long heard waved from side to side. "I will go on talking to you as soon as I have had a little nipal of grain and hay." . Tan had something to eat In his yard and Billy ate some hay In his own yard. Billy was with a number of other goats, as he was. friendly and pleasant and good natured., i "When I say that I am an Imported goat," commenced Tan, after a few moments, "I menn that I have been brought here from a foreign (and that Is a land frrtm fur away. "You see that makes me unusual and Interesting. And It makes me feel as if I couldn't be too friendly with common creatures crea-tures around me. They wouldn't appreclnte me I Why once a man came In' my yard to clean It out and to see If I were all right, and I went for him with my horns ! Well I almost, almost killed nim!" "Yes. I have heard of that." "Billy." said Billy. "But you needn't he so conceited. In the first place of all there are many creatures in this' zoo who have come from lands, fur away. They have had more Interesting experiences ex-periences I linn vou huve hud. Tht zoo Is filled with Interesting animals Tluit Is the most Important thin about a zoo to get as many tinimajs from ull over the world as possible. "So you needn't he so proud, and besides we don't like a cross gout such as ymi are, any more than you curf for us!" |