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008 - My Father Meets A Gorilla · My Fathers Dragon

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight of My Father's Dragon. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Recording by Gregory Holdsworth. My Father's
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  Speaker 1: Dragon by Rude Style's Gannet, Chapter eight, My father meets
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  Speaker 1: a gorilla. My father was very hungry, so he sat
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  Speaker 1: down under a baby banyan tree on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the trail and ate four tangerines. He wanted to eat
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  Speaker 1: eight or ten, but he had only thirteen left, and
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  Speaker 1: it might be a long time before he could go
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  Speaker 1: get more. He packed away all the peels and was
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  Speaker 1: about to get up when he heard the familiar voices
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  Speaker 1: of the boars. I wouldn't have believed it if I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't seen them with my own eyes. But wait and
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  Speaker 1: see for yourself. All the tiger's sitting around chewing gum
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  Speaker 1: to beat the band. Old rhinoceros is so busy brushing
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  Speaker 1: his tusk that he doesn't even look round to see
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  Speaker 1: who's going by. And they're all so busy they won't
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  Speaker 1: even talk to me. Horse Feathers said the other boar,
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  Speaker 1: Now very close to my father, they'll talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get to the bottom of this if
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  Speaker 1: it's the last thing I do. The voices passed my
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  Speaker 1: father and went around a curve, and he hurried on
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  Speaker 1: because he knew how much more upset the boars would
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  Speaker 1: be when they saw the lion's mane tied up in
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  Speaker 1: hair ribbons. Before long, my father came to a cross roads,
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  Speaker 1: and he stopped to read the signs. Straight ahead, an
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  Speaker 1: arrow pointed to the beginning of the river. To the
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  Speaker 1: left the ocean rocks, and to the right the dragon fairy.
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  Speaker 1: My father was reading all these signs when he heard
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  Speaker 1: paw steps and duck behind the sign posts. A beautiful
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  Speaker 1: lion is passed and turned down toward the clearings. Although
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  Speaker 1: she could have seen my father if she had bothered
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  Speaker 1: to glance at the pub, she was much too occupied
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  Speaker 1: looking dignified to see anything but the tip of her
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  Speaker 1: own nose. It was the lion's mother, of course, and
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  Speaker 1: that though my father must mean that the dragon was
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  Speaker 1: on this side of the river. He hurried on, but
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  Speaker 1: it was farther away than he had judged. He finally
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  Speaker 1: came to the river bank in the late afternoon and
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  Speaker 1: looked all around, but there was no dragon anywhere in sight.
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  Speaker 1: He must have gone back to the other side. My
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  Speaker 1: father sat down under the palm tree and was trying
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  Speaker 1: to have a good idea when something big and black
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  Speaker 1: and hairy jumped out of the tree and landed with
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  Speaker 1: a loud crash at his feet. Well, said a huge voice.
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  Speaker 1: Well what said my father, for which he was very
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  Speaker 1: sorry when he looked up and discovered he was talking
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  Speaker 1: to an enormous and very fierce gorilla. Well explain yourself,
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  Speaker 1: said the gorilla. I'll give you till ten to tell
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  Speaker 1: me your name, business, your age, what's in that pack?
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  Speaker 1: He began counting to ten as fast as he could.
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  Speaker 1: My father didn't even have time to say Elmer, elevator
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  Speaker 1: explorer before the gorilla interrupted, too slow. I'll twist your
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  Speaker 1: arms the way twist that dragon's winks, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: see if you can't hurry up a bit. He grabbed
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  Speaker 1: my father's arms, one in each fist and was just
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  Speaker 1: about to twist them when he suddenly let go and
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  Speaker 1: began scratching his chest with both hands. Blast those fleas,
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  Speaker 1: he raged, they won't give you a moment's peace, and
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  Speaker 1: the worst of it is that you can't even get
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  Speaker 1: a good look at them.
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  Speaker 2: Rosie Roda, Rachel, Ruthie Ruby, ROBERTA, come here and get
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  Speaker 2: rid of this flea on my chest. It's driving me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Six little monkeys tumbled out of the palm tree, dash
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  Speaker 1: to the gorilla and began combing the hair on his chest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: said the gorilla, it's still there. We're looking. We're looking,
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  Speaker 1: said the six little monkeys. But they're awfully hard to see.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Oh, I know, said the gorilla. But hurry,
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  Speaker 1: I've got work to do. He winked at my father, Oh, gorilla,
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  Speaker 1: said my father, and my knapsack. I have six magnifying glasses.
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  Speaker 1: May be just the thing for hunting fleas. My father
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  Speaker 1: unpacked them and gave one to Rosie, one to Rota,
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  Speaker 1: one to Rachel, one to Ruthie, one to Ruby, and
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  Speaker 1: one to ROBERTA. Why they're miraculous, said the six little monkeys.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to see the fleas now, only there are
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of them, and they went on hunting frantically. A
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  Speaker 1: moment later, many more monkeys appeared out of a nearby
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  Speaker 1: clump of mangroves and began crowding around to get a
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  Speaker 1: look at the fleas through the magnifying glasses. They completely
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  Speaker 1: sur out of the gorilla, and he could not see
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  Speaker 1: my father nor did he remember to twist his arms?
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter eight,