Show ay ta MARY MAR y arn GRAHAM baj IWU k SOONER UNION THREE HORNED GIRAFFES 1 I nm inon as mr three giraffe though sometimes I 1 am culled called a L nubian giraffe said mr giraffe it all means the alie same thing thin said mrs giraffe 1 I am your mate and I 1 am tile the same as you are that is I 1 belong to e exactly the same family and andl I 1 am like you in many nays there are many ot of us who ho are somewhat different that Is I 1 do not mean that there are many of us who are somewhat different but there are giraffes who belong to the great giraffe family and who ho are like us in many ways and yet not in all ways ANRYS all cousins though there are the two horned giraffes or the southern ones the somali domall giraffes and there are five giraffes of western uganda many many many many miles away from here now we came from east africa yes said mr three horned gh giraffe fiffe but that was some time ago yes tes some time a ago go still we did come from there you are z right ight about that and we ne came together too and weve grown since N weve eve been here were about thirteen years old now arent we ue just about said mrs three horned giraffe have I 1 ever heard mr three horned giraffe asked that thirteen was an unlucky number num berl you may have heard it said sirs mrs three horned giraffe and do you suppose it Is true do you suppose that now I 1 am thirteen and now that you are thirteen well get those dreadfully dreadful sore throats that everyone la Is th thinking lilling well get sooner or later tic ine heard beard they were always drawing pictures of us willi great bandages arcoui our throats OT r long necks dont pay attention to fill all you bear said mrs giraffe its such a waste of time besides I 1 beard a girl say who wits was walking through the zoo that she he was just fourteen years old and year had been the luckiest year she had ever had she had won more prizes and had more nice things happen you just told me saldor saia mr giraffe not to pay tiny any attention att edtion to what I 1 heard 1 I did mrs giraffe answered but then en you paid attention to eliat you had heard beard 1 I heard beard it said mrs giraffe replied and I 1 am telling it to you to show you that aliat everyone think that thirteen Is an unlucky number and I 1 also tell it to you to let you know that 1 I dont think much of zither considering it a lucky number Y always drawing pictures n or an unlucky number or a lucky year or oil an unlucky year or a lucky birthday or an unlucky birthday 1 I think it depends on what happens that year or on n that day of the month or whatever it may happen to be that makes folks think thank it Is either lucky or unlucky probably a lot of unlucky things thing i happened on that day to someone once and they started the story about and now if anything unlucky does happen on a thirteenth people all say oh the thirteenth but I 1 dont believe that the number or the date itself has anything to do with it well said mr three horned giraffe im glad you think that way how well and happy we are weve been well since we cane came and known a days sickness mrs three horned giraffe said and our thirteenth bear ear going to change our luck juck we have delicious food clover hay biscuits vegetables tables of different kinds bran and rock salt and milk tool 1100 1 more than fourteen feet in height ik ight and im almost as tall and were fr fir cudly endly too even though w we rie are so high UPI up just then the keeper walked by the two giraffes who had been talking in the zoo and ho said tile good old species of and that pair in there are about fifteen years old you see bald mrs giraffe we are aldor than ne v think and ne e went through sli our thirteenth year without e fw k knowing g I 1 it tl I 1 |