JUNGLE JINKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XI, 14 March 1903, Page 761

JUNGLE JINKS.

MARIA THE COOK ENCOUNTERS SOME STRANGE MONSTERS.

fl- “Maria,” said Doctor Lion, “I’ve just brought home some ducks for you to look after. I want them fattened up for Christmas ” “Lor’, sir!” exclaimed the cook—“more birds? Why, we shall have quite a farmyard here soon!” “That reminds me,” whispered Jumbo to Jacko, as they peeped over the wall; “why shouldn’t we have a little ‘farin- ' yard fun’ with those ducks?” “All right,” chuckled Jacko, “I’m ready: but we had better wait till cookie’s back is turned.”

2. So they waited, and as soon as Maria had’ gone indoors that rascal Jumbo scrambled into the farmyard with two pots of paint in his hands. All the boys sat on the wall and watched him while he painted a horrible face on an air-balloon. “M hat are you going to do with that?” giggled Jacko. "Oh. you’ll see soon enough.” sniggered Jumbo. “But first of all run and get me some more balloons.”

~ And Y hen I Jun,bo had finished painting the balloons, Jacko and Rhino helped him to tie them on the heads of the ducks. I hen those naughty boys led the birds to the door of the kitchen and drove them in. “Quack! quack! quark!” cried the ducks; and Maria, looking up from her pie-making, gave a loud scream for help. “Oh, dear! oh, dear! I shall be eaten alive as sure as my name’s Maria!” she cried- But when those boys at the window burst into a roar of laughter, cookie saw through the trick, and declared she would go and tell the Doctor about it at once-