"THIRSTY WEATHER, MR. MATE!"
"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things... ." But Lewis Carroll was wrong about this young walrus, for he was too busy doing justice to a bottle of lunch to talk! The walrus lives in the icy waters of the Arctic, and he has long tusks and a moustache. He is, in one respect, rather like a monkey-when he’s born -he looks almost as old as his parents, with his wrinkled skin and drooping
moustache well in evidence. But whatever he looks like, no doubt he’s the apple of his mother’s eye! This baby walrus was brought recently from Greenland to Copenhagen, Denmark. During the voyage he was petted and spoilt so much by the crew that he did not like to leave the ship. Eventually he was "taken for a ride" in a taxi on the lap of a strange gentleman ° who turned out to be an attendant from his new home-the Copenhagen Zoo,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 34
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163"THIRSTY WEATHER, MR. MATE!" New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 34
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