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The Animal School
- - -By G. H. Reaves
Once
upon a time, the animals decided they must do something
heroic
to meet the problems of “a new
world.”
So they organized a school.
They
adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing,
swimming, and flying. To make it easier
to
animals took all the subjects.
The
duck was excellent in swimming, in fact better than his instructor;
but
he made only passing grades in flying and
was
very poor in running. Since he was
slow
in
running, he had to stay after school and
also
drop swimming in order to practice
running.
This was kept up until his web feet
were
badly worn and he was only average in
swimming.
But average was acceptable in
school,
so nobody worried about that except
the duck.
The
squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed frustration in the
flying class where his teacher made him start from
the ground up instead of from the tree-top down.
He also developed “charley horses” from
overexertion and then got a “C” in climbing and a
“B” in running.
The
eagle was a problem child and disciplined severely.
In the climbing class
he beat all the others to the top of the tree, but,
insisted on using his own way to get there.
At the end of the year, an abnormal eel that could swim exceedingly well, and
also run, climb, and fly a little had the highest
average
and was valedictorian. The prairie
dogs
stayed out of school and fought the tax
levy
because the administration would not add
digging
and burrowing to the curriculum. They
apprenticed
their child to a badger and later
joined
the groundhogs and gophers to start a
successful
private school.
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