. Two in a zoo . nthave to wait long. Listen, Mahmoud isbeginning to rumble through his old Sultan has roared under hisbreath, and a moment ago the tigers weresnarling. The secret will soon be out— At that instant, Sultan, patriarch of thelions, delivered himselt of a mighty the Princess could tell by the soundof it that it was not a roar of anger. Good! said Toots, that is old 52 TWO IN A ZOO Sultans call for rejoicing. Now was first to reply. The oldelephant trumpeted a hearty response, inwhich the other elephants joined. Afterthat there were growls from
. Two in a zoo . nthave to wait long. Listen, Mahmoud isbeginning to rumble through his old Sultan has roared under hisbreath, and a moment ago the tigers weresnarling. The secret will soon be out— At that instant, Sultan, patriarch of thelions, delivered himselt of a mighty the Princess could tell by the soundof it that it was not a roar of anger. Good! said Toots, that is old 52 TWO IN A ZOO Sultans call for rejoicing. Now was first to reply. The oldelephant trumpeted a hearty response, inwhich the other elephants joined. Afterthat there were growls from the bears, snarlsfrom the tigers and pumas, and an extraor-dinary chatteringamong the mon-keys. Through-out all the MenialWorld there wasonly one note ofdiscord, one fail-ure to respond heartily to the call for re-joicing. When the other yoices had sub-sided, up spoke the aged striped hyena inhis evil-tempered voice, demanding: Wherefore rejoice? What has befallenin the Lion House that gives cause torrejoicing1. 53 TWO IN A ZOO The roar with which Sultan prefaced hisreply was so terrible that the ill-favoredbeast cowered back into the farthest cornerof his den. Said Sultan: Not for this suspicious, thieving, ill-con-ditioned creature, but for all the loyal in-habitants of the Menial World shall theanswer be given. Harken to the voice ofCaliph, the Wise. For a moment there was deep spoke Caliph, patriarch of the hippo-potami, in his rumbling roar, resembling thatof the cataracts of the Upper Nile, withinthe sound ot which his youth had beenspent: kkLo, Fatimah, my beloved mate, hath aninfant daughter. Mother and child aredoing well; therefore, rejoice. Whereat there was such general andhearty rejoicing that all the houses of the 54 T W O IN A ZOO
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