Scene III.

Presently she sees a stork and a kangaroo, who appear to be at high

words. "What an enormous tail you've got!" says the stork to the

kangaroo; "and are those little bits of things your forelegs? Why, you

are perfectly ridiculous." The kangaroo replies: "Silly bird! my form is

perfect, and my beautiful tail is a wonder in itself, for it helps me to

take my immense leaps. Go away to your swamp, and hide your own long

sticks of legs, do."

"That's pretty well on both sides," thinks Tiny; "each considers himself

the most beautiful animal in the world."

[Illustration: Frog and fish]

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