. The world of the great forest; how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work, and live . aid to his mate: Dear, our feet areso shaped that we can both walk on land and straight and crooked tusks allow us to get thegrass at the bottom of the river. We are so builtthat we can stay under water a long time. The colony of ngooboos had a good time. Theywould play in the water, dive, and swim, often runafter one another, and all this time the young oneswere learning the wisdom belonging to the ngooboos. Once in a while a troop of monkeys who weretravelling would look upon the ngo
. The world of the great forest; how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work, and live . aid to his mate: Dear, our feet areso shaped that we can both walk on land and straight and crooked tusks allow us to get thegrass at the bottom of the river. We are so builtthat we can stay under water a long time. The colony of ngooboos had a good time. Theywould play in the water, dive, and swim, often runafter one another, and all this time the young oneswere learning the wisdom belonging to the ngooboos. Once in a while a troop of monkeys who weretravelling would look upon the ngooboos from theirtrees, on the wooded shores of the river, and wouldsay, We have never seen such an ugly creature inour lives. Watching the ngooboos from among the thick treeslining the banks of the river were the small yellowosengi monkeys with their long tails, and their bosom 109 THE WORLD OF THE GREAT FOREST friends, the hornbills, with their great beaks severalinches long. The osengis and the hornbills are great chums ; in-deed, they seem to be inseparable. So that when ^SSV;^^^^- 4f-g^^S:-^. other birds of the for-est see first the osengis,they say, the hornbillsare near; if they seethe hornbills first,they say, the osengisare not far off, and food is plentiful, and berries andfruits are to be found; and if they feed on these, theysay, let us follow them, or go ahead of them. How such friendship happens to exist betweenthese two, no one can tell. It is the more unselfish inthat, though they eat the same food, they never seemto quarrel about it. Sometimes the osengi would dis-cover food first, sometimes the hornbills. Kee,kee, the osengis would often say plaintively to thehornbills, as they followed them; but the hornbillswere always silent, never uttering a note, because no THE NGOOBOO, OR HIPPOPOTAMUS they did not want other birds to know where theywere. The Httle osengis love the neighborhood of rivers,whose banks they follow in their wanderings ; theylike to sleep on th
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