June 26: The Goldfishes
“I am pretty mad,” said one of the goldfishes in the bowl, whose name was Mr. Tokio Jones.
“I’m mad, too,” said Mr. Pekin Baxter, the other goldfish.
“That little girl said, you remember,” continued Mr. Pekin Baxter, “‘Oh, look at the wings on the fishes.’ Such ignorance! Of course, she meant fins, but it made me pretty mad to think there was a person who knew so little about fishes.”
“And what made me mad was when her playmate said to her: ‘Why, Marion, those aren’t wings, those are fins,’ and Marion said: ‘Well, what is the difference which I say, wings or fins?’
“That certainly made me mad.”
“It did me,” said Mr. Tokio Jones, “but let’s not excite ourselves any more; let’s be like the lazy snails, who are really sensible not to get angry, for it does no good at all.”