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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
about in the earth, searching for what they can
get. Do pay them a visit; they are such
funny little creatures, and when brought out
in daytime they look for all the world as if
they were hurried out in their nightgowns in
great confusion, for day is night, and night is
day with them. How we can be related I
can’t understand; but the directors, who are
learned in our pedigree, say we are, though
very distantly.
" By the bye, give my compliments to the
directors, and tell them that I should very
much like to be installed in the same
enclosure with my friend the quagga, who I
know has his abode in the next house. I
can’t understand how the poor fellow can get
on without me ! And you might hint to them
in a very deferential manner from me, that if the
quagga and I were to live together, it might
give the visitors a little better idea of our life
in the desert, and how we have lived in
friendship since the world began. Should they
object, remind them from me that the quagga
would not be the only ass favoured in society
by a lady dowager adorned with ostrich
feathers."
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