Show EYE k M asni ilk N 16 IRY HA aa all y daiy ry araan iraan ponner MANDARIN DUCKS you must be patient my little son so said mother mandarin duck to I 1 her it little duckling the other ducklings duc klings were not talking some had wandered oft off and so some were busy thinking aud and talking of other things one little duckling had been asking mother mandarin D duck k a great many questions ile he had asked her almost everything eNery thing lie he could think of and that was a great deal well mother mandarin duck ho he said chev bcd do you suppose it will be when do you suppose mother mandarin my little duckling said mother mandarin you will not get your gay and gaudy feathers such as the older members of your family haat until you are two years old that is the custom 1 I get them any sooner could 1 I asked the little duckling that nt be fair said mother mandarin for some of the little mandarins to get their gay plumage ahead of the others would it now my love that Is true said the duckling it be fair fail but I 1 am so impatient for my beauty of course you are quack quack saida said mother mandarin cut but you see we must all keep to our ways and our well worth waiting for customs old and good and it if we should change them every one would be so confused cont used just think of the fussing and fuming and confusion there would be they would see a 11 mandarin duck duck with ills his gay plumage and they would think lie he was two years old and if he was not two years old and hall had them everyone would be terribly mixed up we ave must follow the mandarin duck ways as been tor for sears cars and years and the dear old mandarin duel duck ancestors or grandmothers and grandfathers and great and great grat grandfathers have started such customs it if they right you see little duckling we come from china and japan those are the countries in which the mandarin ducks live they have always been called the mandarin ducks too that Is our family name now tile the colors of a I 1 mandarin duck are very fine there Is a touch of green to the top of the head there are reddish brown and green colors to be seen in the back and about the body as well ns as blue tin and all other colors I 1 fancy at least I 1 dont know the names of all the colors but we have most of thern 1 underneath Under nc illi we care for white nice and simple ant and pretty find and white makes 1 a I nice contrast in the front of our costumes to the gay coats and hats ln we e wear I 1 and when I 1 speak of the coats and hats we wear I 1 moan mean the gay feathers on our backs and heads now take our neighbors in the zoo the australian stubble quail brown and speckled feathers safe here for in the country they come from they are often sought after by men with guns they belong to a small sized family hut but while hile all right in their way flow dull they are compared to us were so gay and bright with our plumage Ever everyone yoDe wants to look at us and my little ft duckling eklin you must be patient for colors such as we have cant come at once we must be patient when ahead of us there Is such glory if we only were going to have speckled brown coats it would seem absurd to wait waft for them but it seem absurd for us to wait for such beautiful feat feathers liers does it no said the little duckling for beautiful and glor glorious lous plumage ls Is well worth waiting for that is the right idea said aloth mother mandarin and it Is tile he same idea as aa people have who ho are willing to wait and be patient for success and such things if they cant get it in a hurry they wont give up at once but wait until they do get it wait rind and work and so will we wait for our plumage ng e and alalie we dont have to work we wont get discouraged and behave badly but will wait with the lie right kind of spirit ell eh ray my little duckling youre right mother mandarin 1 said the little duckling the plumage of a mandarin duck Is 19 worth waiting aorl for |