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At
the
Zoo with Sam and Lucca
Lucca is 3 years old
and Sam is 6.
Lucca goes to a
daycare center called "the Little Imps".
Sam goes to school
in
the preschool class in
the School in Middlefield.
Lucca and Sam are
neighbors.
They live on
Middlefield Road.
Lucca lives in
number
584 and Sam lives in number 566.
Sometimes Lucca
calls
Sam sixty six.
Then Sam smiles and
calls Lucca eighty four.
Here they are, Lucca
and Sam.
Ready to go to
the zoo.
The sun is shining
and Lucca is wearing her most beautiful red summer dress.
Sam wears his
white vest with no sleeves on
and
his shorts with red
and white stripes.
Lucca thinks Sam
is
cool.
Sam thinks Lucca
is
cute.
Sam's father is a
school teacher at Middlefield School.
He has taken a day
off so that he can
go with Lucca and
Sam.
Sam's father is
called Samuel S. Samuelson,
but at the school
they always call him
Samuel the Manual.
That is because he
knows everything.
If you have any
questions at all,
just ask Sam's
father.
Sam's father brought
a basket
with sandwiches and
something to drink.
And in the basket,
of course, he also had a book.
Well, really, he had two
books.
One about animals
and
a book written by the famous American writer,
Ernest Hemingway.
It was called "For Whom the Bell
Tolls".
As they entered
Middlefield's Zoo they saw a flamingo.
The flamingo stands
on one leg when it rests.
How many eggs does a
flamingo have in its nest?
Sam asked.
One egg, his father
answered.
Sometimes two eggs.
One out of 300 times
the flamingo has two eggs in its nest.
Sam's father
answered
as always quite correct.
Why does the
flamingo
look so angry?
Sam asked.
The flamingo is not
angry, but its the beak has that shape because flamingoes eat
by filtering
the water
with the upper part
of their beaks lowest down in the water,
Sam's father
answered.
Sam did not quite
understand.
But he was satisfied
that the flamingo
was not angry.
Lucca shouted, Oh, look!
and pointed at the
parrots.
What a beautiful row
of parrots!
Yes, Samuel the
Manual said.
The parrots live in
places that are very colorful.
That is why parrots are so colorful.
It is easy to
understand that a flamingo or a parrot is a bird.
But a penguin cannot
fly.
Penguin live in
the Antarctic and a few live in Australia
and in South America.
Lucca's father has
seen very small penguins in South Australia
on an island called
Philip Island.
I don't know whether
there are any in South Africa.
I will just look in
my book, Sam's father said.
Sam's father, Samuel
S. Samuelson, called Samuel the Manual, Lucca and Sam enjoyed
themselves.
Now they found the
prison horse.
Lucca's uncle calls
it a prison horse.
Of course it is a
zebra.
It is too short to
look over the fence,
and that is why it stands
on
two legs.
The names of the
giraffes are Tall
Charlie and Not So Tall Charlie.
Tall Charlie is blue
with yellow dots.
Not So Tall Charlie
is yellow with blue dots.
Bernhard is a
monkey.
He loves to climb in
trees and he loves bananas.
On his head he
always wears his blue cap with the yellow button.
That is how you
always
can see which monkey is Bernhard.
In a house with bars
there are lions
and tigers.
Mister Lion has a
huge mane.
Tigers have stripes.
Not two tigers have
the same pattern of stripes.
Now I am tired,
Lucca said.
And they went home
to
Middlefield Road.
Lucca wondered why
she was so lucky as to have friends like
Sam and Sam's father.
As Lucca met her
mother and father
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and told, and told,
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and told
them about this
wonderful day.
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