Read Motor Matt's Peril; or, Cast Away in the Bahamas Page 22

  ANIMALS THAT DREAD RAIN.

  Lions, tigers, and all the cat tribe dread rain. On a rainy day theytear nervously up and down their cages, growling and trembling. Thekeepers usually give them an extra ration of hot milk. That puts themto sleep.

  Wolves love a gray day of rain. They are then very cheery. Treacherousas the wolf is, no keeper need fear him on a rainy day. He is too happyto harm a fly.

  Snakes, too, like rain. They perk up wonderfully as the barometer fallsand the damp makes itself felt in their warm cases of glass.

  Rain makes monkeys glum. They are apt from instinct, when they see itthrough the window, to clasp their hands above their heads and sit sofor hours. That attitude, you know, makes a kind of shelter. It is theprimitive umbrella. So, when it rained, the naked primitive man andwoman sat gloomily in the primeval swamps of giant ferns.