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It was a beautiful day in the mountains. The sun was playing hide-and- seek among the fluffy, floating clouds, and the air was soft and warm.
Bobo, the good little man of the mountains, was waiting for the birds and animals to come. To come for what do you suppose? To come for food — because at the door of his mountain cave, Bobo had many good things for them to eat.
He had nut cakes for the fuzzy tailed squirrels.
He had seed puddings for the pretty fluttering birds
He had cabbage salads for the long-eared rabbits.
He had tiny cheeses — no bigger than cherries — and these were for the little mice.
Now on this beautiful sunny day, there came a Funny Thing which Bobo had never seen before. It looked something like a dog and also a little like a giraffe, and from the top of its head to the tip of its curled tail, there was a row of beautiful blue points.
“Good morning,” said Bobo. “And what kind of an animal are you?”
“I’m not an animal,” said the Funny Thing. “I’m an aminal !”
Bobo was about to say that there was no such word as aminal , when the Funny Thing looked around fiercely and cried, “And what have you for a hungry aminal to eat?”
“Oh,” said Bobo, “here are some lovely nut cakes.”
“I also have some fine seed puddings.
“This cabbage salad is very nice — ”
“ — and I’m sure you’d like these little cheeses.”
But the Funny Thing turned away and said, “I never heard of such silly food! No aminal would eat those things. Haven’t you any dolls today?”
“Dolls!” cried Bobo in surprise.
“Certainly,” said the Funny Thing. “And very good they are — dolls.”
“To eat?” cried Bobo, opening his eyes very wide at such an idea.
“To eat, of course,” said the Funny Thing smacking his lips. “And very good they are — dolls.”
“But it is not kind to eat up little children’s dolls,” said Bobo, “I should think it would make them very unhappy.”
“So it does,” said the Funny Thing, smiling pleasantly “but very good they are — dolls.”
“And don’t the children cry when you take away their dolls?” asked Bobo.
“Don’t they though!” said the Funny Thing with a cheerful grin, “but very good they are — dolls.”
