Show DADDY EVEN IHil R FAIRYTALE I 1 RY TALE ay y mary graham craham bon r er V I 1 THE LOBSTERS they nicy said mr air Lob lobster ter and airs lobster asked at once the question so ho many animals find and creatures ask will you pray explain to me what you mean when you say that they say tell me who they are and what about them and it if good to eat tell we ire if to be found around here and if ill find them tender my aly dear mrs airs lobster grinned mr air lobster as he wiggled his legs llie yd be amused it if they heard hear you ask it if they were tender and be still more amused it if they heard you say that you wondered if they were to be found around here and it 1 they were good to eat well said mrs lobster nothing noth lne you have said explains anything to me I 1 dont care if they would bp amused and I 1 dont care if they would be still more amused id like to know who they are what they are and where they are youve asked so many questions mrs lobster that it ft Is hard to know where albere to begin answering them just begin and I 1 will tell you about the questions you only have to begin ith the answers first of 0 all tell me who they aliey are they are people and In instead steni of letting us find out it if tender and it if good to eat they eat us before we have a chance to find end out they eat cat us usi shrieked mrs lobster What horrible people and yet you think it was horrible for us its to eat them it if they were tender laughed mr lobster quite different said mrs airs lobster quite agreed mr air lobster it all depending on who was going to do the buting 11 naturally said mrs lobster quito quite so agreed mr Lob lobster still smiling and what are anre these people like asked mrs lobster they each have two long iong legs said 0 0 a 40 they eat Us shrieked mrs lobster mr lobster and they live on dry land ilow how queer they must be said mrs Job lobster ster the creatures who ho travel in ships 3 the ones who iho go fishing and the ones who tall talk tunny funny words all the time continued mr Lob lobster ter and why would they WE atto to eat us asked mrs lobster because were nere good to tat rat said mr lobster oil oh really that Is why uby rt many of the cousins and relations leave us asked mrs lobster she was wan not very old ou see find and she had warly things to warn learn yes said mr lobster they so go to be eaten by the people but were it a great luxury in most places place that is INC were I 1 re vary very ix expensive pensive and were considered a great treat though there are some places where were so plentiful that we are quite quite cheap it is better to be expensive said mrs lobster we be so apt to get caught if we were so expensive we might nil miss ss being captured because there enough money to pay for us ah sald said mr lobster that may be so but still it if we were cheap and there mere w ere plenty of us we might not get caught because they need us id rather think of it ray my own way said mrs lobster also I 1 like to think of myself mi self as an expensive luxury it if I 1 thought I 1 were going to be eap exp expensive I 1 mind so much belm being c caught 11 and were red when we go on I 1 th the a t tables ables ts ls port part ot of a salad balazi or all cooked up iu in a piping hot dish said mr air lobster 11 were not green atler after we are captured killed and cooked Is that really so asked mrs lobster really so said sir lobster and what were nere you going to tell me these people said for you began to tell me and I 1 to know who they were viere asked mrs lobster 1 I WAS going to say that people said they could tell the way the wind nind was waa blowing and whether li ether a storm was coming in by the way we ve looked acted and pointed ill fool them I 1 will chuckled mrs airs to b t e r |