Love, Let Me Not Hunger
“If for a day or so there was meat for the carnivores, then there was insufficient fodder for the elephant and the horses. Or if they amassed sufficient pesetas to buy alfalfa and a few fruits and vegetables and some milk for the other creatures, then the big cats again went short of food and sent up their moaning.
They were caught in an economic, fiscal, and social trap from which there was no escape. The officials of the town of Zalano might indeed have made another effort to help their en...forced and unwelcome guests, and actually were engaged in discussing ways and means of doing so since assistance from Madrid did not seem to be forthcoming, when the news reached them that three of the four remaining caretakers of the hungry zoo had secured jobs and were working.
Pleased at this solution of the problem, the matter then had forthwith been dropped. By nature warm-hearted, friendly, hospitable, and ever helpful to strangers, the people of Zalano had no way of knowing of the gulf between what was being earned and what it cost per week to maintain the animals.MoreLess
They were caught in an economic, fiscal, and social trap from which there was no escape. The officials of the town of Zalano might indeed have made another effort to help their en...forced and unwelcome guests, and actually were engaged in discussing ways and means of doing so since assistance from Madrid did not seem to be forthcoming, when the news reached them that three of the four remaining caretakers of the hungry zoo had secured jobs and were working.
Pleased at this solution of the problem, the matter then had forthwith been dropped. By nature warm-hearted, friendly, hospitable, and ever helpful to strangers, the people of Zalano had no way of knowing of the gulf between what was being earned and what it cost per week to maintain the animals.MoreLess
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