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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Oh, then you are going to have a fine, time," said one of the keonkies, or tame elephants, that help train the wild ones. "If you go to the circus you will have fun. A friend of mine was once in one, and then, in his old age, he came back to India to live. And he said he never enjoyed himself so much as in a circus. And how he did used to talk about the peanuts!" "What are peanuts?" asked Umboo.
Just as in school you do not learn to read the first day, so it was with Umboo. He had to be trained by his keeper and the keonkies, or tame elephants. And, after the first feeling of being sorry at having been taken away from his mother, Umboo grew to like the new life. His mother was sent to another big stable, farther away, though Umboo saw her once in a while.
They will have food to eat, and sweet water to drink, if they are quiet." Tusker heard this, and so did some of the other wild elephants. They were hungry and thirsty. "Will you give us water to drink?" asked Tusker, for his trunk and mouth were very dry. "You shall have water enough to swim in," answered one of the keonkies, or tame elephants. "And may we eat?"
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