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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
heads, but they close them at once They
wanted to listen, I fancy, but they either were
frightened, or, may be, they were jealous
neighbours, who, chancing to look out at the same
time, and knowing that neither can move,
slammed the doors in each other’s faces. I see
by the movement of his gills that the pike is
telling his story and all seem interested. We,
too, will listen, as we are amongst them.
" Yes, as I told you," says the pike, "the lovers
quarrelled, and the pretty lady seated herself
on the little pier that projected into the lake;
it was the very one where she used to sit and
throw crumbs to the little fishes, who all knew
her very well, for she came every day, and my
mother came regularly with the others. And
at this pier his boat used to land, and she to
welcome him with her sweetest smiles, and her
eyes then shone with such love, that they quite
reflected little beams of joy upon the calm
surface of the water. But now there was no
gladness illuminating them. They shot instead
angry flashes that might have penetrated the
deep, like faint lightning. Her face was
now flushed with that terrible ruddy colour one
sees at sunset when the following day will be
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