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Show HORNED GUINEA FOWLS "If it weren't conceited I'd say that I was a queen and that all the other fowls in the zoo were my subjects," sub-jects," remarked Mrs. Horned Guinea F'owl. "And what about me?" asked Miss Horned Guinea Fowl. "I suppose you are thinking of the great beauty we possess and of our special right to be called queens. "For if you were to be a queen I should of course be one, too. "I am your sister, yes, indeed I am. So I should be a sister queen." "That's absurd," said Mrs. Horned Guinea Fowl. "It takes more than what you are talking about to be a queen. "To be sure one of the first reasons rea-sons I had when I said I really had every right to say I was a queen, was because of what you are thinking. "It is true I have a helmet or, as I should say a crown. "That is why I am called the horned guinea fowl because of my horny helmet." "I have one, too," said Miss Horned Guinea Fowl. Mrs. Horned Guinea Fowl did not iay any attention to her remark but went right on talking. "Now a helmet," she said, "is something some-thing to be worn on the head, and so is a crown. "It would be quite enough for a guinea fowl to have a helmet in order to be a queen. "It is true too, that you are my sister. "You? head is a beautiful shade of blue as is mine. "And if I could be made a queen, or if I could call myself a queen simply because of my helmet which would take the place of a crown In the guinea fowl world then you could be a queen, too." "Just as 1 said," repeated Miss Horned Guinea Fowl. "Just as I said." "But ah, my dear sister," clucked Mrs. Horned Guinea Fowl, "it takes more than a crown or a helmet to be a queen. "One has to be a leader, one has to be fine and noble and superior. "One has to be the sort one's subjects sub-jects will respect and look up to and - aumire. ' "More than one can be all that," said Miss Horned Guinea Fowl. "I can be all that, too." "I doubt it, I very much doubt it. But I am certain of myself. "That Is the sort I am. Eut I do not want to tell that all around the i . 1 nn titer . . I Mrs. Horned Guinea Fowl. zoo, as I do not want to seem conceited. con-ceited. "I would rather be a simple horned guinea fowl than a queen with a puffed up, conceited head in addition addi-tion to my horney head "I am afraid that if a horned guinea fowl called herself a queen she would be more puffed up then queenly. "It is not queenly to be puffed up "But remember, my dear sister that crowns don't make queens not' real queens." "Ah, poor me," sighed Miss Horned Guinea Fowl, "you don't think I amount to enough to be a queen." "I really think a lot of you," said Mrs. Horned Guinea Fowl, "but I've been in the zoo a much longer time and so I want to act a little superior "But you see I don't really think I should be a queen, though it is fun to think about it once In awhile." "Oh, all right," clucked Miss Horned Guinea Fowl, "for you have had the ' modesty, at least, to keep from really calling yourself a queen." |