JUNGLE JINKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XVIII, 31 October 1903, Page 61

JUNGLE JINKS.

HOW JUMBO LOST HIS HAT AND ROUND IT AGAIN.

1. Windy? I should think it was! They were having dreadful weather in the Jungle. The rain poured down in torrents, and the wind whistled in the trees just as though it was winter instead of summer. “Oh, look! There goes my hat!” shouted Jumbo. “Catch it. somebody, quick!” But tne other boys hail all their wink cut out to stop themselves from being blown away. “Catch it yourself!” cried Hare; my gamp has blown inside out!”

2. Jumbo’s hat blew right away, and nobody knew where it had got to, until one day about six weeks later the boys went out birdnesting. “Hallo!” said •lumbo. “here’s a nest ” “You can’t reach that, it’s too high up,” said Rhino- “Can’t I?” retorted Jumbo, “that’s all you know.”

3. And—would you believe it? —the nest proved to be Jumbo's old hat—the one he lost six weeks before, and inside. sitting as cosy as you please, were four baby chicks- “Oh. what dear little tillfly things!” exclaimed Jumbo. “I'll take them home to the Jungle School, and we’ll ask Dr. Lion to let us feed them and look after them every day until they are old enough to ily.”