The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-29
ANIMALS WANTED TO EAT RIm

'Huh!" snOrted both of the striped ones. ave
are zebras and you are a goose"
"Well" retorted Mr.. Pennywel, "you can't blame
me, for your legs are too short for a zebra's, I'm
sure. However, you two deer can step out" he
added, pointing to a pair of apparently horned
beasts near by
Excuse me. but we are not deer; we are rabbits,
or hares, forget which," said one of the horned
creatures. "These are ears, not horns"
Poor Mr.. Pennywel was now too confused to see
straight. He asked the blue horses to come out as
rats, and the guinea-pigs to masquerade as r-a-
lions, while he called the tapirs ant-eaters and
made them angry But when he said the oxen were
polar bears a riot broke out. All of the enraged
animals began to growL howl. roar and grunt, and
the grafes, being tall enough to reach out of the
opening in the roof, tried TO bite him and 1lmost
caused him to fall overheard trying to evade their
ferocious attack
Captain Noah came running along the lee rail-
ing with a whip, shouting to the animals to hush,
but he had great difficulty IN subduing them. and
they only became quiet when de promised to feed
the man to them at once. The lions and tigers be-
gan TO lick their chops eagerly, and the bears to
whine with delight while Mr. Pennywell broke ont
in profuse perspiration He protested eagerly
against such a deed, and warned Noah that the law
would be invoked if he was fed to the beasts like a
martyr to make a Roman holiday. Noah reflected
awhile and seemed undecided, but when Shem
whispered to him to stand firm and feed the ami
mails he suddenly said:
"No, l will spare you if you can find one person
in all the world who pick out the animals
properly for you. If you can do this III let you
Mr.. Pennywe1 knew that it would be impossible,
or rather he thought So to find such person, but
he wanted to gain time. lie asked Noah TO return
I a. IaF. 4.faFrs cod
It took only few minutes to get back in the sit
ting-room and tie up to the lounge once more,
when Shem sprang ashore and vanished
Just then Edna entered. The noise had awakened
her, and recognizing the sounds of animals voices
she had hurried to her precious ark
She was startled TO see her father a tiny manikin
on the vessel but when he cried eXcitedly to her
TO come to him she Anelt down and asked:
whats TIE matter. PapaP
q am lost" cried her father, "unless I can find
someone who can name every animal and match
them at once. It's impossible, but I'm in Noah's
@Wby, it's easy enoughg" she said q can tell 'em
apart in the dark"
SAVED AND BECAME BETTER MAN
She rapidly called them all by name and mated
them Just as easily as you would real animals and
in a few minutes they we're all standing in pairs
and very mute and humble. too for they knew that
she was their mistress The most amazing thing
about it all was that the animals that looked most
like inofensive deer COWS or pigs were bLoodthirsty
and carniYorous lions, tigers, panthers md wolves
and a pair of what her father supposed were foxes
turned out to be lambs
"Now, Mr.. Noah" said Edna "you Just let my
father go at once and don't never dare say another
cross word to himp
Il was only fooling" said Noah. 81 just wanted
to teach him a lesson. Good night"
He went into the Ark and closed the door. Edna
went back to bed, and in another minute Mr. Penny
well found himself, as large as ever, on the lounge
and the clock was striking twelve.
See whizP he cried. "What a narrow escape"
he looked down at the Ark on the floor and added:
q have had enough Of Patriarchs tonight so III
not go to the lodge, but III go to bed"
The next morning Edna told Oscar about a
strange dream which she had had in the night
but Mr. Pennywell knew that it was no dream. Il
had been too real and toe trying and had be wished
TO have considered IL dream be had but TO look
under the lounge TO see the rubber doll beside Shem
on the floor to be convinced that it had really hap
pened. He became different man from that night
and when he came home in the evening he brought
IN armful of toys and showed the children now TO
play with them cheerfully that HRS. Pennywell
thought he must be sick and going to die. But he
didn't in fact be all the healthier for che fact
that he used 10 forget TO go 10 the lodge while he
was romping and playing with Oscar and Edna
and tho children used 10 boast that they had the
incest and jolliest fnther in the whole city.
But / noticed when / was taore that the old
Noahs Ark had vanished, and IN its place was a
new and gorgeous ono with ovory animal carved
by an nxpert artist, 90 ihat there would never Be
any MISLEADING an Eland for "a Anrd-vark