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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Wellington, you have met Dekko, I think," laughed the girl. "Woomph!" grunted the dog disdainfully, as he cocked an eye at the bird, which ruffled its feathers, spread its red tail and looked down sideways and spitefully for a long moment. "My Gawd!" it suddenly shrieked. "My Gawd!"
"Well," thought Tum Tum, as, with the other elephants, he marched toward the big barn-like building, "if there is enough fun, I shall not mind the hard work." Then, as he felt rather jolly, after getting out of the big freight car, Tum Tum picked up a piece of stick from the ground, and began tickling another elephant in the ribs with it. "Yoump! Umph! Woomph!" trumpeted this elephant.
The energy with which they dance is extraordinary shaking their spears and grunting, they advance with knees raised, like high-stepping horses, until the thigh is almost horizontal, now one leg now the other, with a will, and then one, two, down come the feet together with a thud, the dancers striking their spears in the ground, growling out savagely a sound that I can only express as "woomph, woomph" with what a smack their flat feet meet the ground, and what a shrieking yell goes up from all throats as they stop!
"Woomph!" replied Wellington, hurling his great weight into her lap. "How he loves you, Maris!" "Yes, miss, he does," broke in Jane Coop. "And I firmly believe he's my mistress's guardian angel." "After you, Janie dear," said the girl, smiling fondly up at the plump maid and tying a huge crimson bow round the neck of the long-suffering animal. "What is he going as, Maris?"
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