Show y sy daiy 1 THE ELANDS did you know that we were becoming very rare asked mr eland from his yard in the zoo Is that so inquired sirs mrs eland it most certainly ts Is answered mr eland they say that few of us can be obtained now and that we are great grea at prizes what are prizes asked mrs eland prizes rny my dear answered sir mr eland are presents given to those who are arc great who do great things or who win games or who ho are just I 1 lucky we been given prizes said mrs eland unless you can call our meals prizes 1 I say we had been glen given prizes mr eland continued 1 I said we were prizes our ourselves seles are we going to be given away asked mrs elaud eland we have been given away already oh I 1 dont want another home sold said mrs eland youre not going to have one explained mr mand eland there there my love dont get excited we were given to the zoo some time me ago and we were and are called prizes the zoo won any games because a zoo cant do such things but the zoo people promised to care for or us and to took look after us and so we were gl glen given en to them as a reward tor for their promises atsa funy funny change it asked mrs eland after a moment a funny change asked mr n eland 1 I and are you speaking of the weather my dear weather no I 1 dont bother about the weather I 1 leave that to grownup people to talk about children too talk about the weather put but I 1 was speaking of a different kind of change 1 I ani am puzzled so said mr eland as he be looked at mrs eland out of his beautiful brown brown eyes 1 I will explain said mrs eland mr eland cland had puzzled her and so she I 1 its pleasant here was happy that she bhe was puzzling him a little its a change to come collie to the zoo after the hie dark forests where we used to live uh jh how dark and deep they bere eie and aud here its quite open and there are people nil all about u people and animals its a great change agreed sir mr eland but its pleasant here we can eat imd and sl ep and those are two of the mutt mot important things thing in life and mrs mra lunod agreed for they uro tire beute belonging to the great antelope family but the lions were roaring they were ceru walting waiting to be fell fed the kepper was now BOW ready with nuge pieces of meat two of which lie put into every single ingle i cage in the great aun on house ilow how they grabbed their meat I 1 how they ate it oil oh viliam hat joy there was in the lion houte I 1 and rheu aheu they were through h their meal ineal they oil began to roar they roared back still and forth to bulb eai li other and some of them tried to roar longer und arid harder than the others the reason they were roaring now was because they were happy oli oil how happy they were after acler the good meat they bad had 1 I may be wild said queen lioness who was now feeling less wild than ilic bile had before tier lier men and whose fm e cs were not quite so terribly wild but I 1 am a better mother than mrs leopard and mrs tiger that so agreed mrs leopard jid mrs tiger we nye are really more janger liing erous than llian you tire are but of course is everyone thinks there Is nothing so 30 danger dangerous as a lion or a lioness Il let them think go BO ni as long its as we know the grent great und glorious truth hut they right or argue about it for they were all so happy after their meat I 1 |