Let's Not Be Too Quick To Blame

I Hear So Many Things About Who I Am Supposed To Be I Hardly Know What To Believe. I Am Willing To Tell All, But What Is It? Doubtless All These Myths And Legends Will Be Straightened Out Eventually, But It May Take Years.

The Zebra Is Striped All Over So That The Lion Can See Him And Eat Him. Some People Say He Is Striped So That The Lion Can Not See Him. These People Believe That The Stripes Of The Zebra Simulate The Bars Of Sunlight Falling Through The Tall Jungle Grasses And That Therefore The Zebra Is Invisible And That The Earth Is Flat.

[footnote:] The Dotterel Weighs Only Four Ounces. It Has Long Been A Scientific Riddle How So Much Wrong-headedness Can Manage To Exist In So Small A Space. Still, There's The Least Gnatcatcher.

Some People Lose All Respect For The Lion Unless He Devours Them Instantly. There Is No Pleasing Some People.

As Darwin Puts It In The Descent Of Man, 'male Snakes, Though Appearing So Sluggish, Are Amorous.' Isn't That Just Like Darwin? It Was One Of His Main Ideas, You Know, That The Males Of Almost All Animals Have Stronger Passions Than The Females. Since Then We've Learned A Thing Or Two. At Any Rate, The Female Snake Is Right There When Spring Arrives In The Woods.