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me on her back.html">back.html">back.html">back."
"What did she want to do that for?" asked Humpo, the camel.html">camel. "Was a
herd," answered Umboo, "and she knew I was too little to know how to
time my mother.html">mother.html">mother.html">mother took me across the river.html">river on her back."
"It's a good.html">good thing your mother didn't have a camel-back like Humpo,"
have, Umboo would have fallen off into the water.html">water.html">water.html">water," said the lion, as
sharp teeth.
"My mother's back was big.html">big and strong," said Umboo. "It was flat, and
desert. My mother lifted me up on her back with her trunk.html">trunk.html">trunk, and there I
mothers' backs, and some, very small ones, held in their mothers'
the herd who were too small to ride safely on the backs of the big
Keedah; a large elephant.html">elephant boy, as he looked up and saw Umboo on his
by myself."
"And so will my little boy, soon," said Mrs. Stumptail. "swim.html">Swim on your
do as he was told. Instead he filled his trunk with water and sprayed
first. "Stop it, Keedah!"
"Ha! Ha! I made you get wet, whether you swim or not!" laughed Keedah.
"Get away!"
With that she tapped Keedah on his head with her trunk two or three
its long nose, even though it seems soft.
"Ouch! Ouch!" trumpeted Keedah as he swam out of reach of Mrs.
elephant.
"Well, it won't do you any good," said a heavy voice behind him, and
to Umboo," went on the old gentleman elephant, "and Mrs. Stumptail did
shower any more water on the baby elephants."
So Keedah promised that he wouldn't, and Umboo clung as tightly as he
across the river.
The water was wide, at this part of the jungle, but elephants are. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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