STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
#LOOD morning, Baron
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Munch,” said Hanid, the
Strange Animals
Shadow Girl with the Turned--Baron Munch Caught Them In Afghanistan-
About Wazė.
Animals that I caught that I'll be glad to tell you all about them. I've given them all to the ano. Yo see them in a SE minutes yourselves, I caught a Giraffe and an Ele- in visiting the park zoo," Baron park, "that I have just returned phant, and Lion. a Snake, the Munch said. from a hunting.trip in Afghan- and an Ostrich." istan and-" Hexe Knarf interrupted Munch ask Baron Mumch where Af... h
“Good morning, Baron
Munch, said 2-Knari,
Shadow Boy. Hanid said she liked very Beren Munch nodded cheer much to see the zco, too. fully to his two favourite Knart asked Baron friends. Then he asked them if why he particularly wanted to. wouldn't, care to take visit the 200 they walk with Him abien to' the "The fact of the matter is," said Baron Munch, as far away! they particularly interested started strolling toward The
Rupert and the Popweed- 28
two pals settle dowis close May Write: a the bottle?” asks My people are at Rocky: In that cist you certainly aitees the bay. There's oct uncle of mine living at Bay, so say that I'm with My name is Jonathan
Tremadden, but just call me jon." The boy has pur a piece of paper and a pencil in the bottle and Rupert writes carefully, replaces the paper and corks, the bottle firmly. 'Keep quiet,” whispers Jon suddenly 1 cam-hear voice coming from that gap in the clif! ·
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Knart and Hanid both began to shouting to Beron Munch that they didn't see anything strange about those Animals.
"Oh you're mistaken," said
Barn Munch smiled: "Afghanistan,' he said, to Baron Munch, after he waited few minutes for Knart and asked Knarf, Hanid to quiet down. about these didn't let me Anish! curious raffe I caught
"How far?" who was things.
my story.
You
The GI-
Knart and Hanid were shouting at Baron Munch.
Knar and Hanid wanted TO
BY
in Afganister know what that meant, and gave to the zoo is not at "My Athanistan Shake has
Munch's story all like an ordinary "Afghanistan." explained Giraffe. legs. said Baron Murch and For the one thing an ordinary the
"is exactly Ostrich, unlike any other
Buren Munch. 25 Giraffe has is a long neck. This Ostrich, as email as a Spar-
I.cm us as fas away we are Giraffe has a neck on short that row from it But let me get on with it hasn't any neck at all." th.s time. Knarf and Hanid started to say that a Hanid and Baron Munch had
I went a hunting trip. in Afghan wasn't a Giraffe. Baron Munch, "While I was in Afghanistan Giraffe with a short neck really reached the zoo. The Arst thing "The mountains however, went right on without they did, of course, was to look
istan high. The the short-necked
for Giraffe.
deserts there are very dry. The seeming to bear her. the Elephant without a trunk.
trees growing in Afghanistan the barking Lion, the
Trunkless elephant
very strange. And the Elephant." he said, ik jest and the Ostrich that:
Animals that you catch in far off Afghanistan are the strang→ est in the entire world,“
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was no piezer than a Sparrow. Much to their great disappoint- "No trunk** shouted Rnsrf. men they could and none of "How can it be en Elephant these range Animals in the Knart and Hanid now begged without a tunk?" Baron Munch to describe some "And the Lion." said Faron guess they must have all
of the strange Animals that he Munch. "barks like a Dog saidi kunted in the mountains and call it the barking. Lior, fram gene back to Afghanistan." deserts and in the forests of Alghanistan. As for the snake," Baron Munch. "I just have Afghanistan. to go park and get some mors. And he smiled and puffed happily on his long clay pipe.
continuted Baron Munch, "it has "Well," said Baron Munch, the one thing that no other "you seem so interested in the Snake has."
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