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But the Doctor, he understands them all birds as well as animals. We keep it a secret though, him and me, because folks only laugh at you when you speak of it. Why, he can even write animal-language. He reads aloud to his pets. He's wrote history-books in monkey-talk, poetry in canary language and comic songs for magpies to sing. It's a fact. He's now busy learning the language of the shellfish.
And one night in December, when they were all sitting round the warm fire in the kitchen, and the Doctor was reading aloud to them out of books he had written himself in animal-language, the owl, Too-Too, suddenly said, "Sh! What's that noise outside?" They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running.
And the only thing in animal-language that PEOPLE have learned to understand is that when a dog wags his tail he means 'I'm glad! It's funny, isn't it? You are the very first man to talk like us. Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully such airs they put on talking about 'the dumb animals. DUMB! Huh!
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