Show Giraffe Tallest Tall st Among Quadrupeds of the World Tallest among the quadrupeds of lie world the giraffe l I Is s constructed along alonga a n variety of fir levels 11 Its front tl ont legs les longer than Its long hind bind legs If and Its neck longer than the longest of Its other members with a n tongue of length lell th and flexibility entirely suited stilted to the teet I whole whale w In III fact notes nules a n writer In the St St. Lotus there are evi en- deuces dences In support of one Olle belief that nature must e have started to make male something else when It got ot around to Inal plans plang probably called for fur a It quadruped quail quad raped of conventional dimensions ill and the barrel and rear running gear must have hn been hn completed before amendments amend ments meats were decided 1 on Very r likely the many mallY quadrupeds of comparative e roll ye size sire looked too 1110 much alike So It was probably decided this new animal should have ha ye a much longer neck and to make Its neck longer IlIner than the facts justified It must have ha longer front legs I gs So we have e nn an animal started In reu- reu r u 11 VI ft n anel n 1 ft tile I t In n tf el I n l i-l It f t It Its body hody sloping up from rear to front legs and a n neck so gO long lone Ion that It dis distorts torts the distortion Nature In all nil truth must have been heen In a sportive mood when It made malle the giraffe If It It sought to give Ive the Jungle a 3 laugh It succeeded 11 admirably giving ln the laughing hyena h ena something about which It could laugh h without restraint The Time beast has to 10 straddle Itself nil all out of shape to get a drink of water from the level leel le el of Its own feet I So by J habit It has taught Itself to drink very er little water or at nt least to drink It with great grent Infrequency The long lon neck the thelong theon thelong long on front legs legi and the tilted up-tilted body Jody could hardly have ha been anything but afterthoughts ts |