And the bears further on are a devastating sight, "Sister" was not intended by nature to be @ reigning deauty. Her legs sare bowed by grace of Malayan ancestry, and the comers of her mouth cynical. But patient boredom makes one for~ otful of these things. A long, narrow, red tongue darts out in ceaseless futility. Sister scents a prosective foast in n visitor. She has sunk to the level of all mendicants, and a haunting docility shows in her eyes, Sister Incks, however, the listless ennui of hor neighbour, the big black Tibetan bear, whose neck is like a Pierrot's ruff. Only, he never danced in the moonlight of the Zoological Gardens, Mis attitude strikes one as vaseudly prayerful, cloistered, hinds folded round unbending bars and eyes uplifted. A' Chinese attendant passes along with casual bits of freon stuff. A leaf thrast before the penitent is taken absent-mindedly, There are no signs of resentment at this. interruption to" his musings. No signs, in fact, of anything.
The leat is slowly twisted inward as far as the stem which fulls to the damp earth and the Tibetan bear returns to his sad reflections, head wear out with nozzling Of course, the two-humped white dromedary docsn't_mind. He pre-werves a punctilious, if cynical, dignity despite close quarters. Moreover, he belongs to the philosophical herd of ruminators Nor do the white rabbits mind, a long as there is something to ft between their indefatigable small jaws, The golden pheasants have room for proud struts and five yellow goslings have found, through some Kindly mandate of fate, their own particular bright mildew.
The Fox's Inferno But an Australian Casaurius, with a big lumbering body, haunts the wires of his cage and never: learns.that he can only go just s0 far; and a small restless fox with charming setting of rocks and a
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