THE VERY BEST ZOO OF ALL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2201, 7 May 1896, Page 51

THE VERY BEST ZOO OF ALL.

When daddy's made our bread for v?, and comes back home at night, We often have a lot of fun at playing pillow fight ; And sometimes when he's not too tired, and isn't feeling blue, He'll get down on the floor with me, and play that he's a zoo. He'll roar and growl and shake his head as if he

were a, be*r, And do it so it really gives my nerves a little

scare ; And then I climb iv mamma's lap, where I'll be safe and sound, Anl listen to his growling as he ambles all around. Then on a sudden he will change into a tiger bold, And make believe to bite my feet until my blood runs eld ; But when he turns himself into a great longnecked giraffe' And nibbles at the chandelier— oh my, how Ido laugh 1 And then he takes his collar off and stretches out liis throat, And i-hovea a sofa pillow up his back beneath his

coat, And cries, " Come »cc the camel now ; come watch him prance and jump I And don't forget to fix your eye upon that massive . hump t " But best of all the game is when he gets down on all fours, And 'tends that he's an elephant, and walks out through the doors Ih teaich of peanuts, peering round on each and evevy side, For then I get aboard his back and have a jolly ride. I've been to lots of circuses— l go 'most every

year, And see real zjoi of every kind from lands both far and near ; But nevei did I see a zoo so really out of sight As that that my dear daddy is when he comes home at night. ,