Show DADDYS EVENING evana FAIRY y mary graham bonner A rr y aawar OSTRICH AND SHEEP the ostrich and the mountain sheep were feeling better they were both in the zoo talking from their yards to each other for the day wits was iery ery warm 1 I derbut ps said Bl ackle the trouble was with us a little while ago that we were baving spring weather you mean my dear ostrich said the mountain shepp named jim spring fever feer and n why fly pray tell do I 1 mean spring fever asked blakie blackie because that Is the thing people get in the spring but im not people said blackie Bl ackle what Is spring fever ever anyway I 1 only know k now it comes in the spring now how strange sahid jim with a 2 tunny funny little smile why strange asked Bl ackle in quite ft a serious tone as thou though gh he be did not understand at alt all oh I 1 meant it as a joke said jim when I 1 said it was strange that spring fever came to in the spring 1 I meant it strange at all but quite the most natural time for or it to come and so said blockle Bl ackle you said it was strange when you thought it strange from rom the tone of my voice you should have known it was said in fun said jim 1 I 1 suppose so said blackie Bl ackle smiling broiling a foolish smile you see spring fever Is something which makes people or animals feel till I 1 I 1 III I 1 f i ll 11 1 1 1 1 1 11 fill I 1 T how strange said jim sick and poorly and as though want to do anything at all what I 1 had screamed Bl ackle 1 I want to do anything at all that was just the way I 1 felt yes sold said jim it was just the wily I 1 was feeling but that was some time ngo ago 11 some time lime ago said the ostrich it Is summer now I 1 dont mind the bummer tum nier I 1 like the cry ry heal beat 1 I like heat anyway well im not so fond of it said jim but I 1 do feel letter better than ilian I 1 did in the spring then the mountain sheep went back to talk to some other friends and the ostrich looked around and sometimes grinned and sometimes moved his head from side to side and all the time looked just as as tie lie could look lie ile looked as though he fie had started to smile over so something methin lie he quite know what and now lie fie know whether lie should stop smiling but decided he botier tc stop oil oh he yas a foolish fellow was tl blackie ackle the ostrich but one thing lie had sense enough to feel and that was unit it wal wa very foolish to worry over being fool ish alien lien that vias nas th the way he was vas in that way lie he really had quite a lot of sense ond and perhaps perli aps quite so foolish as we ue think ne lie chewed a little nad and thought a little but the thinking lie did was very very very ver very Y cry very little in fact hardly anny at ill all |