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Show DADDY'S LM EVEIIHIC 3$g FAIRYTAIlllflfl Mary Graham Bonner SUN-BEARS AND CAMELS "I am the ugliest bear In the world except possibly you," said Morris Malay Ma-lay Sun Hear, usually known as Morris Sun Hear. "And I could say the same of myself." my-self." said Maxwell Mulny Sun Hear, usually known as Maxwell Sun Hear. "Ah," suld Morris Sun Hear," the reason why you are almost as ugly as I am, or why I am almost as ugly as you are, is because we are both brothers. broth-ers. We belong to the same family." "Yes, our family Is a hideous one," said Maxwell. ,fSo other family of bears compares to ours for ugliness." "We are famous for other things, too," snld Morris. "What?" suld Maxwell. "Well, we are the crossest of bears and when they say, as they do sometimes, some-times, 'You're as cross as a hear,' I've been told that they had the Malay Sun-Hours In mind. "We can bnrk like dogs. We have short, thick hair. Our bodies are too small In comparison with our big hends and feet." "We have only one head and one body oplece," said Maxwell. "True," agreed Morris, "but I was talking about all of us the whole family. I came from the Malay peninsula penin-sula and so did you. Others of our family came from around India somewhere. some-where. Hut I am not worrying about them, for I know they will uphold the family name of being cross and ugly." "Yes, we are the smallest bears in the world," said Maxwell. "In fact, we have a good deal of which to be proud." "To tell you the honest truth," snld Morris, "we have nothing of which to be proud, and a great deal of which "It's a Joke," Said the Dromedary. to be ashamed, but we're not going to admit anything like that, for we wouldn't be that pleasant. - i "Here come some people. It can't be closing time yet. Burk, Maxwell. Show you're a cross Malay Sun-Bear." Maxwell barked and so did MorrlH, and by the time the people came near them they were as cross as cross could be, for It Is the nuture of the Mulny Sun-P.ears to be cross, ugly, and pe-cullai1 pe-cullai1 and that's enough for one family fami-ly of animals! Hut not far away were the camels and they were talking once more about their favorite Joke, "Go on," said the Camel, grinning foolishly, "tell It to me, I beg of you." "You needn't beg It of me, for I expect ex-pect to tell you anyway and I don't need to go on for I expect to stand right here. I don't have to move when I speak, except my mouth and maybe my Jaw." "Oh," said Campbell Camel, "I didn't mean for you to go on and take a walk. I meant you to go on with your Joke. But of course camels aren't supposed to have many brains so I didn't express myself well." "Whether we have many or whether we have few, it makes no difference to me," said the Dromedary, "even though It did sound as though I was most particular In my choice of words. "But to tell you the Joke the great and mighty Joke, the funny little Joke." "Well," said Campbell Camel, "Is the Joke little or big, Is It great or small?" "It's a Joke," said the Dromedary, "and I am making It sound funnier by saying a lot before I tell you the real point of my story." "My dear Dromedary," said Campbell Camp-bell Camel, "take my advice and don't take too long to tell a Joke. By the time you get to the funny part, folks are all worn out waiting." "Well," said the Dromedary, "my Joke Is this. There was a play given In a theater and the scene wa supposed sup-posed to be In Africa from wl e everyone ev-eryone knows I come. But did they have dromedaries on the stage? Not a bit of It! They had camels with two bumps such as you have. And you and all your family come from Asia." "That certainly Is a Joke," said Campbell Camel, "and I should think people would know that camels, or Bactrlan Camels as they are usually called, have two humps and come from Asia while you, old Dromedary, with your one hump, bail from Africa." |
