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sure you feel a different interest in your four-footed 

 countrymen since you have climbed their Family Tree." 



"I do already, Uncle Roy," said Dodo. "I used to 

 look at the stuffed skins, but they seemed dead, far- 

 away beasts, like the Lions and Tigers. Now they are 

 real people, just like Quick and Mr. Wolf." 



'• Oh, how jolly it will be taking Rap around I " said 

 Nat ; " and then, if we go to a hotel, we can have striped 

 ice cream and ride in an elevator ! For, do you know, 

 Uncle Ro3% Fve told Rap about them, but I don't think 

 he really believes that elevators are real things." 



