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Don't talk so, Pete." "Why not, sir? I am doing it to keep up your sperrits." "But I want to listen." "Hear anything, sir?" "I am not sure. But I keep expecting to hear some of the Malays in pursuit." "Not likely, sir. If they are they must be coming on one of the other helephants, and I don't believe any of them can walk as fast as this one does, so they are not likely to overtake us.
Oh, there's that banana I began to eat;" and he stooped down, picked it up from where it lay amongst the leaves, and then dipped the cocoa-nut cup into the water, and took a deep draught of the refreshing beverage. "Ah!" he sighed, as he set down the shell. "Seems to wash the cobwebs out of one's head. Wonder where those helephants were being driven."
Can't you?" "No, sir; we come such a long way round. But as far as I can make out, we are somewhere at the back of them big trees where they fed the helephants on Sham-Fight Day." "Yes, I think that's right," whispered Archie, as they knelt together whispering. "But let's get on; we must hit the river somewhere." "Hope so, sir. It will be softer than hitting your head against trees.
That's the best of it. You can't grarsp it because you have been lying there onsensible and don't know what's happened. I didn't believe it myself at first; but you remember about the review and the big Rajah's helephants?" "Yes, of course." "Well, when I was off duty for a bit I goes and makes friends with one of the swell mahouts him as drove the Rajah's own helephant.
Yes, I heerd him three or four times, but I was too comfortable to sit up and bother about him. Did you hear him?" "I suppose I did, but it all seems as if it was part of a dream." "That's all right, then, sir. I say! Hear 'em? Here's the helephants coming. You get up and look."
You haven't seen because you have been too bad, but they keeps helephants here, and I know one of them." "You know one of them?" "Yes, sir; he's been to see me twiced." "Are you dreaming, Pete?" "Yes, sir with my eyes open. I have thought it all out.
Then he started, and he felt some of the contents of the cup trickle down his chin, for there was a shrill trumpeting noise again as the desire to exert himself came, and he exclaimed: "What's that?" It was only in a whisper, but the Doctor no, it was not the Doctor; it was some one whose voice he knew said excitedly: "Helephants." And then, "I say, Mister Archie, sir, you're a-coming round!"
"If I asked that chap who brings the water to let me see the helephants he would see through me, so I won't do it make him 'spicious; and he wouldn't understand me if I did. His is an awful foolish lingo. Might perhaps get outside the door or window some night and have a look for them in the dark. Ah, there's no knowing what I might do when he gets better."
He must have been there all the time, though he didn't show up. That little, squatty chap used to do all the work of taking the helephants to water, while he stopped back, too big to do any of that dirty work, and ready to ride when he was wanted."
"Let's see, Mister Archie; don't seem to be many paths where helephants and things come down to drink. I don't believe if we were landed there we could get through those woods. I wonder what makes them call them jungles. I suppose it means because the trees are all junged up together so that you can't get through. If they called it tangle there'd be some sense in it. But that ain't the worst."
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