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Show DaJJyIvenin miry Ialfef Bonner ? ifMv BABY WALLABY WAYS "I've beard," said linby Wallaby to III I lie Brownie, "that babies must be . kept very quiet "In fact sometimes people will come to the coo and they will wheel baby carriage. They wheel It along very gently and sometimes they stop and alt on a bench and let the buby have k I long, quiet rest and sleep. "They are always talking about not ' disturbing the baby. "It seems to be n very dull life for buby to lead." "That makes It a healthy baby," said Hlllle Itrownle. "Well," said Buby Wallaby, "that may be so, but I'm glud I'm not baby ': of that sort then. "I'm thankful I'm a Baby Wallaby." ' BIHIe Brownie thought to himself that other babies were doubtless very , thankful that they weren't Buby Wal-I Wal-I lubles, but he thought he wouldn't auy Just that to the Buby Walluby. "Oh, maybe very healthy," said Baby Wallaby uguln. "but so very dull. "I am very thankful I don't have to lie In a carriage and be kept so quiet. "I've never seen a single mother go hopping and Jumping along with the baby carrluge. "I've never seen one leaping and bounding along at a high old speed. "No, they go walking along so slow, ly and they sing In a low tone sometimes some-times to the buby. "Now I have some excitement. "When I was very young I was very mall, of course, and I stayed In the comfortable little pouch every mother Wallaby and every mother Kangaroo baa for her baby. "I was so helpless my mother bad to put my food right down my throat. "But even then my mother went Jumping and bounding along with me ' "I'm Thankful I'm a Baby Wallaby." riding contentedly In my baby walluby carriage. "Then I became a little bigger and I could see all that wus going on about in' Just in l noticed bublus will often lo"k, about them. ''But did Mother Wulluby keep me quiet even then? "No, she went bounding along with me Just the sume as ever. "She gave gorgeous big leaps and irlorious big Jumps und there was I In my comfortable pouch she has for n i e, nnd I Just had the best time ever a buby walluby bud. "Oh, I have said to myself so often as I've aeen babies here In the zoo: "You poor little dears, you don't know whut a good time reully Is. "There haa been excitement among the Blountuln Zebras. "Mother and Father Mountain Zebra announced to their friends lutely that they had a fine son. "But no sooner had they sent out this notice than they bad another to send out. "The Baby Colt Zebra waa only ten hours old when he Jumped right over bis mother's back as ahe was lying down. "Now you know be Is a fine baby who la able to do that. I couldn't have done that myself. "He showed he could do some fine leuplng, and such a young baby, too. "Fancy 1 He had a trick before he was a day old and a good trick, too. "He wasn't quite a half-day old. "That's what I call smart. "But poor little reul babies are kept ao quiet. It seems a shume. "I feel sorry for the poor little denrs. "Yes, If any one wants to know what I tlilnk you may tell them that Baby Wallaby thinks they don't have much fun." So Billle Brownie laughingly promised prom-ised to deliver the Baby Walluby's uiesuge. |