One Sunday Agnes and her mother went to the zoo. The girl was very excited. She was interested in everything she saw.
"Mother, look," she said. "There is a monkey in this cage. It is eating an apple. Now it is taking a bite to another monkey. I think monkeys eat apples very much."
"Yes, dear," said her mother.
"Now I want to go and see the lions and tigers. Where do they live, mother?"
"In that big house over there. Come along."
Agnes enjoyed herself very much in the monkey house. "Mother," she said, "the tiger is going to have a drink: it is going to the dish of water there in the corner. And the lion is looking right at me. I think it wants to eat me up? When do the lions and tigers have their dinner, mother?"
"The keepers bring them great pieces of meat every day at four o'clock. And they make a lot of noise before their dinner time, so everybody knows they are hungry."