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Hapgood went on: "I'm telling you, old man, that after the coroner had done with him, and after this Humpo, with his viprous forefinger, and his retriever tongue, and his perspiration streaming down his face, and Twyning tugging him down by the coat and putting him on the trail afresh after the coroner, and after this Humpo like that, had been on to him for a bit, Sabre absolutely couldn't speak.
"My friends, the African elephants, are much larger than I am, and they are wilder and fiercer, and so they are hardly every caught for the circus." "I remember a great big elephant in a circus I was once with not this one, though," said Humpo, the camel. "His name was Jug no it was not Jug, and it wasn't Jig, but it began with a J." "Maybe it was Jumbo," suggested Umboo.
People hardly ever ride on an African elephant's back." "Well, let us hear more of Umboo's story," suggested Humpo, the camel. "It seems to me everyone is talking but him." "That's so," spoke Horni, the rhinoceros. "Please go on, Umboo. Tell us about how you were lost in the jungle."
And soon Æmilia had her arms about the neck of her dear Humpo, and was whispering nice things into his floppy ears as he knelt before her, looking lovingly at her with his big brown eyes. Thus it was that Glaucus, the good rich man, knew that the Lord was pleased with him for his kindness, and had helped him to do his duty.
Extracted from her at last that he was probably at Brighton. Couldn't get anything more definite out of her. "'Look here , cries Sabre. 'Look here look here, she didn't know! "'I am not surprised, says Humpo, 'I am not at all surprised. Court laughs cynically. 'You have interrupted us a great deal, says Humpo. 'It is time we saw if you will be equally informative in the witness box.
And every now and then while Humpo was leading on the witnesses, and when Sabre saw what they were putting up against him, he'd half start to his feet and open his mouth and once or twice let fly that frightful 'Look here of his; and old Buddha would give him, 'Be silent, sir! and he'd drop back like a man with a hit in the face and sit there swallowing and press his throat. "I tell you....
I learned how later, though, and I liked the water. But this time my mother took me across the river on her back." "It's a good thing your mother didn't have a camel-back like Humpo," said Woo-Uff, with a sort of chuckling laugh. "Why?" asked Horni, the rhinoceros. "Because, if Mrs.
"How would you like to hear one about the hot, sandy desert?" asked Humpo, the camel. "That would be fine!" cried Umboo. "Tell us your story, Humpo!" "I will," promised the camel. It will be called "Humpo, the Camel." The elephants swayed to and fro, their leg-chains clanking in the tent. The monkeys chattered among themselves. Snarlie, the big, striped tiger yawned and stretched.
And there were so many of them that he could not remember all of them to tell his circus friends who were listening to his story. "But did you get seasick?" asked Humpo, the camel. "That's what I want to know. Did you get seasick?" "No, I did not," answered Umboo. "But I was tired of staying in the dark part of the ship so long. I wanted to get out in the sun.
The leader-camel was the favorite of Glaucus's daughter, Æmilia. She was crying in a corner of the garden, thinking about her dear Humpo, whom she never expected to see again. When, just as Fronto had done, she heard a far-away tinkle. She jumped up and ran out to the road. "What is it, Æmilia, my child?" called out her father, startled by her sudden movement. "Oh, Father, Father!" she cried.
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