LADY FLO: Silly children! SIR W.: Had you not at once flown into a rage, I should have broken my promise to Jem, and have told you all! LADY FLO: That was quite right of you. (_They walk up stage, amicably, arm-in-arm. JEM and KITTY walk to CENTRE._) JEM: You will find me ready dressed to start for eight o'clock matins, to-morrow morning, Kitty! KITTY: Oh! That's very much too much to ask of you! JEM: Not at all! Providing you won't insist on going out with the guns. KITTY: I shall only wish what _you_ wish from this day forward, dearest Jem! JEM: That's all right! (_They kiss, laughingly, as the curtain descends. LADY FLO and SIR WILLIAM look on smiling._) FOOTNOTES: [A] The rights of representation are reserved. ZIG ZAGS AT THE ZOO ZIG ZAG CURSOREAN ARTHUR MORRISON AND J. R. SHEPARD [Illustration] Such birds as, having wings, fly not, preferring to walk, to run, or to waddle, as legs and other circumstances may permit or compel--these are the cursores: such birds also as, having no wings, or none to speak of, run by compulsion on such legs as they may muster. These are many--so many that I almost repent me of the heading to this chapter, wherein I may speak only of the struthiones among the cursores--the curious cassowary, the quaint kiwi, the raucous rhea, the errant emeu, and the overtopping ostrich. But the heading is there--let it stand; for in the name of the cursores I see the raw material of many sad jokes--whereunto I pray I may never be tempted, but may leave them for an easy exercise for such as have set out upon the shameless career of the irreclaimable pun-flinger. [Illustration: "GET OUT OF THIS!"] It was some time--years--before I got rid of the impression left upon me by the first ostrich with which I became acquainted. He lived in an old picture-book, and would nowadays be considered quite out of fashion by up-to-date ostriches, having webbed feet and an improper number of toes. I like to believe that feet of this sort were popular among ostriches at that time, being loath to destroy early beliefs. From the same cause, I have other little private superstitions about the ostrich; there was no ostrich, so far as I can remember, in my Noah's ark, whence I derive my conviction that the species cannot have existed at the time of the Deluge, but has been evolved, in the succeeding centuries, by a gradual approach and assimilation of the several characteristics of the camel and the goose.