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I want to get him here some night, and then break a way out and get you on him I knows how to ride like a mahout and I'll make him take us to headquarters. What do you say to that?" "Say to that, Pete!" "Ah! don't you get talking like an unbelieving heathen, sir. You don't know what a lot of sense there is in one of these 'ere helephants.
They have taken tents, of course." "I d'know, sir; but they've took possession of Mr Suleiman's two helephants." "Ah, capital!" said Archie. "This is fresh news." "Yes, sir; and I suppose Mr Suleiman will never get them again. They ought to be prize money. We took them, sir. My word, I should just like to have the old Rajah!" "Of course," said Archie contemptuously.
"What a lark!" said Peter, as the elephant disappeared after his quarry. "It makes me feel as if I should like to keep helephants, if I get to be Field-Marshal and they make me Governor-General of Injy and Malay; for they are such rum beggars. They look just as if when they died they would do to cut up for injy-rubber. And they seem so friendly, too, with any one they like.
Why, to be sure it must; and if my wheels inside had been going as they should, I should have thought it out at once. It must be at the Rajah's place, because of the helephants as you 'eerd now and then. They must have a sort of stable close by here. And then why, of course I'm just as 'fused-like as you are, sir that French count chap came in to see us the other day, and talked to me."
It must be the Rajah's place somewhere right up in the jungle where he keeps his helephants, and that there Frenchman put him up to keeping his hostriches, as he called them, up here too."
That's where the helephants went down to drink, and you see if we don't come to another farther on. But this is splendid travelling. How he does get over the ground! And if it warn't for the commissariat department one could go on day after day, just making a halt now and then for this chap to take in half a load of growing hay and suck in a tubful of water, and then go on again." "Hush!
"Oh, there you are, are you?" said Peter. "The Doctor said in that lecture he gave us chaps that helephants is the most intelligent beasts there is more so than dogs that they get to understand all sorts of words that are spoken to them. That there phoonk, or whatever it was, sounded just like an answer to something I had said; but, of course, it couldn't be.
"Trees, trees, trees," he said; "trees everywhere; but there's a path off to the left, and one goes off to the right, and there's another goes straight away. Let's see: off to the right must be down to the river, because that's where the helephants went; and those other paths must go to where somebody lives; but there's no sign of a house nothing but trees. Not a sound!
If you don't feel strong enough, say so, and we'll wait." "What do you mean? What's the matter?" whispered back Archie. "Look there, sir! The helephants are coming, and there ain't no sentry." "Oh!" ejaculated Archie, wild now with excitement, "I'm strong enough for anything." "Then take it coolly, sir, just as if we weren't going to make a bolt.
"Ah, you think I can't do it, sir; and you are low-sperrited because you ain't strong enough." "It all sounds so wild, Pete," said Archie faintly. "Course it do, sir. Helephants ain't horses." "Thank you," said Archie, with a faint scintillation of his old ideas of fun. "They are wild beasts, and big 'uns, too, at that." "Yes, yes; but this all sounds nonsensical." "Course it do, sir.
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