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But Tum Tum was very strong, and, just as he had often done in the jungle, he wrapped his long, rubbery hose-like nose, or trunk, around the tree. "Here, Tum Tum, what are you doing?" called his keeper. "Umph! Umph! Wumph!" Tum Tum answered. That meant: "You just watch me, if you please, and you'll see." Then Tum Tum just pulled and pulled as hard on that tree, and up he pulled it by the roots.
"Wumph!" coughed the elder. "To think of you old coots dandlin' a baby on your knees and buyin' it pep'mint candy and the Lord knows what, and walkin' down the street, each of you holdin' one of its hands and it walkin' betwixt you.... Dummed if I don't congratulate you." The deacon looked at the elder and the elder looked at the deacon. They grinned, frostily at first, then more broadly.
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