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TROPICAL BIRDS. ’53
’53
next sixpenny day,—for I am making studies
here,—and then I may tell you another story."
But the two poor, ragged little ones looked
at me in blank despair.
" Ah, I understand; meet me outside the
gate," I said to them, "at -," and I
whispered something in their ears, " and I will
let you in." But dear me, kind reader, since
then I have discovered I shall be prevented
from going, for—I whisper it in grave ears—I
can’t afford to go so often. But will you go
instead ? The children are sure to be there,
and you will know them, for they are ragged,
and their eagerness to gaze at the wonders
of the Zoo,—their forbidden Eden,—will point
them out. And if you will only pay for them
to go in,—why, the animals will tell them
stories themselves, far better than either of us.
" But the moral of your story, sir ?" I hear
you say.
" Well, if there is no other, take the request
I timidly whispered in your ear for a moral;
it will do."
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