"What does he do it for, Daddy?"
"Let's ask the keeper."
And they asked him.
"'E's a Emu, that's what 'e is," said the keeper. "That's what he does when he goes courtin'. Only there won't be no courtin' for him this time. 'Is mate died yesterday."
"And yet he dances," Winny said.
"And yet he dances. Heartless bird!" said Ranny.
They looked at the Emu, who went on dancing as if unobserved.
"Scandalous, I call it," Ranny said. "Unfeelin'."
"Perhaps," said Winny, "the poor thing doesn't know."
"Per'aps he does know, and that's why he's dancin'."