FRIENDLY ENEMIES, THE ANIMALS 101 



bit of comedy into the peaceful scene. Well, the 

 roar that came from that Lion was heard around 

 the world, and the after effects are still to be seen 

 everywhere. 



"The new stingers of Bumble Buzzer and Bald 

 Hornet were long and terribly sharp, and the pain 

 to the Lion was beyond description. The only thing 

 he could think of was to get away, and bite some- 

 thing as he went. He bit the Elephant, who lunged 

 into the Camel and rammed him against a tree, 

 pushing him all together, and thus giving him his 

 hump. Then he slapped the Giraffe, who caught 

 his head in the fork of a limb as he ran under a 

 nearby tree, thus pulling his neck out to such a 

 great length. Then the Lion bit the taU. off the 

 Lynx, who in turn slapped the Wildcat, which made 

 the Wildcat wUd. 



"As the Elephant charged out of the garden he 

 stepped on the tail of the Beaver, with the result 

 that the Beaver's tail has been flat ever since. As 

 the Camel fell back from the tree into which he had 

 been rammed by the Elephant, he stepped on the 

 tail of Jerry Muskrat and tore all the hair out, so 

 that ever since Jerry has had no hair on his taU 

 whatever. 



"WeU, matters went from bad to worse. It was 



