| Show ac AA sy maff GRAHAM BOMMER rac P fwu MM A ZOO VISIT the animals to in the tha zoo son looked out of their cages and said cald a pleasant good afternoon to douglas and dorothy in their various ways some roared it out just jurt as it 1 they th sy thought the children were quite quite deaf some sang bang in brills trills while 0 other t it a r a shrieked and cackled the c children b I 1 I 1 d r a n by cage after cage saying we will h have to come here again and again tor for we can never nonsense No mente said see bee all the uni the monkey animals and be come friends with them in one afternoon at last they reached the monkey houte where they had planned to spend most of their time ilow how do you do squeaked the monkey in monkey talk good afternoon said douglas end and dorthy Dort liy would you like to join us h here ere asked the monkey goodness no said douglas cant you see were not monkeys were children Non nonsense sene said the mon monkey key when you say you are children you simply mean you are young youre not grownups grown ups tor for instance nor are you yon old men and women A As 19 tar far as that Is 19 concerned were not old so you might as well call us children im a child tor for I 1 am very young it you look old enough said dorothy you lieve love a face that Is in arlu kled kle and looks like an old man besides you lieve a tall tail real children tails 1 I should say BOY not said douglas youre very unfortunate answered the monkey and I 1 feel extremely sorry tor for you whatever do you do it if a fly bothers you we have arms and hands said douglas duglas uglas so have I 1 added the monkey but here I 1 am wasting time talking to you when I 1 told my little cousin the white faced monkey you see thit I 1 would have a friendly tri ri endly scrap with him so between the two cages the monkeys fought with their hands slapping P ing each other through the bars suddenly one of them stopped ile he gave a queer yell I 1 what could it mesa thought the children but just then the keeper came around with some bananas for all of them you see he be said they were playing but its p peacetime now that it Is banana time there Is a rule in the monkey house speech Is silver but bananas are golden then uncle john asked the keeper to tell the children more about the monkeys after which they not of only wandered through and talked to the keepers and watched the animals but they rode on the ponies and after that the camels camel a never they were quite sure had bad anything been quite such fun as the camels someone who ought to have known better said one of the keepers to douglas and dorothy and uncle john stood once here in the zoo KOO before the giraffe aud and said to some accompanying boys and girls see boys and girls the giraffe has a solid foot just as a horse has well I 1 just bear to let such a thing go by you know we like to give I 1 information and in tell eli about our animals we like to have people interested 1 I beg your pardon I 1 sold said that day but you will notice that just then the the giraffe has not keeper came a solid hoof such as the horse has but tits his hoot boot Is sepa rated and Is of two parts the thing that bothered me mostly was that there stood the giraffe not able to speak the humans language but nit at least showing allowing his feet so that they could tie be explained by looking lit BI hini and not from 9 ome gome bit of formation which had been handed about somehow some way |
