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178 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
be! I once was the first in our forest in the
race, the first in the jump. No legs were more
fleet than mine,—and now ! Now I can barely
run at all, and I would scarcely match myself
against a hedgehog! Once I-; but why
recall those dear old days, when I was free ?
Why–"
Here I interrupted him in his sad
remembrances by saying, " I now understand why you
always appear so mournful; you regret your
lost freedom. But I do not wish you to make
yourself unhappy for my sake. I only wanted
to have put your history in my book along with
the other animals’; but if it would pain you to
call up the past, pray do not do so."
" I am always thinking of the past, of what
I was and never will be again. If it will
interest you to hear my doleful tale, you shall
have it."
And then he began the following
narration :
" You must know that I was born in the
Black Forest on the blue Rhine, and that I was
one of a large family. My elder brothers and
sisters had long left my parents, and I was
\heir sole charge After one year’s nursing,
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