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Show HP Daddy's fairy Tale jyARY GRAHAM BQNiNER MRS. ANGORA GOAT "In the winter," said Mrs. Angora Goat, "I dream of the spring when the young will come to give us so much joy aud pleasure. . "All we mother Angora goats will welcome out little ones when the springtime comes, for It is then that they will arrive. "And now that it is cooler weather, I dream and I think and I plan for those days to come when we will all have youDg angora goats playing around us, cheering us by their games and their playfulness and making ns so proud of their beauty. "The keeper will give them hay and grain and they will think It tastes so good. "Ah, the winter may be the time when some animals think of how well they feel. "It may be the time when some animals an-imals are sleeping. "It is the time when the little bears all arrive.. "But I spend my winter dreaming wonderful day dreams of the spring and of all the young leaves coming out on the trees as they did last spring. "I think of the flowers bursting into bloom as they did last spring, and as they all do every spring. "But, best of all, the children will come, the angora goat children, and wdiat would the world be like without children?" Alother Angora Goat shivered at the very thought. "But there will always be children," said Mother Angora Goat. "Yes, there will always be chtt-dren." chtt-dren." Then some of the other Mrs. Angora Goats came over and talked to Mother Moth-er Angora, and they all talked of the Young Angora Goats. childrei and the springtime and of how nicely the keeper took care of them. They talked of the cold weather which they had been having really quite cold for tills time of the year just as all In the zoo had been having, hav-ing, but they always went back to the one subject of talk the springtime when the little angora goats would come to prance aud jump aud play and scamper over the rocks and little hills in their zoo home. And Mrs. Angora Goat made up a Zoolet Lullaby which she sent to the Zoolct Society. This was the Zoolet Lullaby sent by Mrs. Angora Goat : ; My darllnRS, prance and play, ; lly darlings, yes. bo pay! My darlings. Jump and scamper, My darlings, romp and play. My darlings, dance and leap, My darlings, never weep, My darlings, frolic all you will, My darlings, dance and leap. My darling's, then you rest, And dream dreams of the best, And grather health and strength, My darlings, then you rest. My darlings, sleep, sleep, sleep, Don't even give a peep, At the noisy world outsldo, When you sleep, sleep, sleep. |