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Updated: May 10, 2025
And so it happened that before the elephant realized that his new enemy had leaped from his path Tarzan had driven his iron-shod spear from behind the massive shoulder straight into the fierce heart, and the colossal pachyderm had toppled to his death at the feet of the ape-man.
Among the few species already detected, two at least belong to the anthropomorphous class. The only reputed fossil monkey of Eocene date, namely, that found in 1840 at Kyson, in Suffolk, and so determined by Professor Owen, has recently been pronounced by the same anatomist, after re-examination, and when he had ampler materials at his command, to be a pachyderm.
"Er thank you, my man," said Morris haughtily; "but I don't think it probable that I shall venture upon a peripatetic zoo eh, young gentlemen?" "Oh no, sir!" came in chorus. "Can we see the huge pachyderm from here?" "Packing apples, sir? No, no, don't you alter that there, sir. You called him fugity beast just now, and you can't beat that. No, you can't see him.
The antelope, although in plain view of the huge beast, paid not the slightest attention to it, and I was so wrapped up in watching the mighty pachyderm that I quite forgot to shoot at the buck and presently, and in quite a startling manner, it became impossible to do so.
"Listen to him, gentlemen, and you will be convinced that he is eligible to membership in our truth-loving fraternity," he remarked admiringly. The ungainly pachyderm was standing on its hind legs, trumpeting through its upraised trunk a protest against the prodding of the sharp goad which was forcing it to walk backward in that absurd position.
I'm used to being able to fly at will, and this form seems so ... so ungainly. No offense, Elephant. I think you make a terrific elephant. But I make a lousy one." "But you do make a wonderful bird," agreed the pachyderm. "Yes, Ozma, do put him back the way he was. As adorable as he is, he isn't exactly a model specimen of my race." "Of course," said Ozma, again raising her Silver Wand.
The rhino can see only at close range and can smell only when the wind blows the scent to him. Consequently he would be defenseless and at the mercy of the hunter if it were not for one thing. Nature, in her wisdom, has sent the little rhino bird to act as a sentinel for the great pachyderm.
"But the elephant can take care of himself when the mahout allows him to do so," argued Scott. "Is the mahout his schnout?" asked Felix. "You know better than that, Flix. The mahout is the fellow that sits on the elephant's neck and conducts him. He is the driver," replied Morris. "Is he afeerd of schnakes?" "He needn't be, perched on the top of the pachyderm," answered Scott. "Who is he?
"Good riddance, I say!" spoke Nibbles. "That big old thing was ugly! And it smelled awful!" "Where's Fisher?" asked Elephant. "I think the thingy ate her up after all." "I sure hope not!" "I'm fine," came the feline meow. "Is that beast gone away yet?" "It has," answered the pachyderm. Oddly, neither Nibbles nor Tweaty felt the slightest tinge of fear at the sight of the cat.
We will have to travel through some fairly rough territory to get to the Light Bulbs. But I'm sure our pachyderm is up to it, if anyone is. And we do have our new Queen along as well. I really don't think we'll have too many problems." However, unbeknownst to the little owl, problems were exactly what lay ahead of them.
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