“Oh, I’ve heard about you!” exclaimed the buffalo. “You are the dancing bear!”
CHAPTER XI
SHAGGO GOES TO SLEEP
Shaggo, the mighty buffalo, felt as though he had met an old friend when the bear in the next cage said that his name was Dido.
Shaggo wanted to talk, and to ask a lot of questions of the shaggy bear, who was eating the carrot he had clawed from the buffalo’s cage. But just as Shaggo crowded close to the bars of his cage, to ask how Dido felt and how he liked it where he was, a great growling and snarling arose at one end of the big building where the zoo animals were kept.
“What’s the matter now?” asked Shaggo.
“Oh, it’s the keeper coming to feed us,” answered Dido. “I hope he brings me some sweet buns. What would you like best, Mr. Buffalo? I don’t believe I know your name,” said the bear.
“I am called Shaggo,” was the answer. “And, to tell you the truth, I do not feel much like eating. I am not very hungry.”
“Then there must be something the matter with you!” exclaimed Dido, as the growling, snarling and crying among the other zoo animals sounded louder and louder. “I am always hungry. You’ve heard it said, I dare say, ‘as hungry as a bear.’ Well, I guess I’m that bear,” laughed Dido, showing his teeth, “for I’m always ready to eat.”