The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-22
JOY IN The BRONX MENAGERlE
A SUNDAY JOLLIFICATION THAT
ALL THE INMATES HAD.
How the Hellbeuder Was Neighborly and
wherefore tho Coon Was shy-What
All the Birds, Beasts and Reptiles
Did on the Day of the SolSttce and Why.

All the Birds, Beasts and Reptiles
Did on the Day OF the Solstice ana Why.
The rocking stone rocked and cast shift
ing shadows with the sun that was como
again on the day Of the solstice, and all the
birds and beasts of The Bronx were glad
that the rain was ended.
All was we'll with the serpents In tho
house OF reptiles. The hellbender. with
toes like pearls that are small and white,
tapped on its walls Of glass to tho crested
newt and was neighborly. Tho crested
newt was kind to the common newt and
there was good will among all the creatures
that crawl and wriths and coil, And tho
adder stung no more.
The Cuban boa, tho corn snake and tho
chicken snake made peace In their own
homo with the CHA monster and ooiled
themselves into coils that were like letters
and said probably fair The crocodile
quit weeping.
The fowls Of the flying cage tapped their
wings and the doves, with leaves In their
bills. beat upon the cage with their wings
and wanted Noah. And the ibis the peli-
can and the famingo wound their necks
one about the other, and the ducks back
twitohed with Joy.
The cassowary shook the dew from her
red four-in-hand tie and strutted like tho
peacock. The peacocks spread their tails
upon the walks Of men to dry and be won
dered at.
And the sea lions nip-hopped from rock
to rock and made a grateful noise like one
who was sick at sea and has found peace.
The foxes came from their holes and the
h>oru frov tho{r ThA splHol
the thatch on his shelter and found that 1t
was dry and he barked In the sun for the
first time In forty days. And the hyena
glad when the world laughed with him.
The aoudad leaped from rock to rock.
So did the moutfion and go leaped the ibex
and tho tahr OF the Himalayas and the
burrhel and the Punjab wild sheep that are
called urial and sha. and 1t was well with
all the beasts Of the oloven hoof.
The buffalo blinked In the new light and
his eyes were dazzled 80 that he saw no
more the iron limits to his range and he
browsed In peace. The racooon did not
come down because 1t was the day Of the
solstice. The fallow deer nibbled the grass
by the swollen stream. Tho Red River
hog shook his head from side to side. The
mud dropped from his side whiskers and
they were fluffy.
The crafty badger showed the pink soles
Of her feet at the bars and tried to coax
the white beast from Nagasah to leave
his mate and come to her. The white
beast was not afraid. Even the timber
wolf was mild and hid his teeth.
Wild asses brayed and the Monaghan
Wild horses, male and female. kicked up
their heels for Joy and the 1ebras rolled
back their lips, which Is to laugh. Wild
beasts were like lambs. Hannibal, the hairy
lion OF Barbary, roared no moro at Cleo
patra The tigers dozed and tho cubs slept
In the sunshine.
There was peace among the primates.
Joyful apes hunched against the bars In
tho sunshine and put all wrangling from
them. The orang-outang from far Borneo
shared his banana fruit with the chimpanzee
from the west Of Africa, where the Equator
crosses, and the chimpanzee was not
afraid because the sun shone. And the baby
baboon slid down the back Of it's long
armed mother and was not spanked.
There was no more pickering among the
monkeys.
The bats shrieked for Joy when the sun
came out, wrapped the skin OF their wings
about them and slept. For 1t was the
first time In forty days that 1t was light
and they could not see.
So all the beasts and tho birds Of The
Bronx were glad when the rocking stone
rocked and made shadows on the earth.