"
"And I saw 'em water the elephants!" cried Freddie, struggling to get
loose from his mother's arms. "The elephant sucked the water up into
his nose, ma, and then he squirted it down his throat just like my
fire engine squirts water. Only, 'course an elephant squirts lots more
water than my engine. But I'm goin' to get a bigger one that squirts
as much as a elephant, that's what I goin' to do. And I saw one
elephant, ma, he went right out in the water and laid down in it. What
do you think of that!"
"The elephants often do that, ma'am," explained the strange boy. "They
like to get a bath now and then, but we don't often have time to give
it to them."
"You speak as though you belonged to the circus," said Uncle Daniel.
"I do," answered the boy. "That is, I'm with one of the side-shows,
and I help around when there's nothing else to do."
"Well, it was very kind of you to bring back my little boy," went on
Mrs. Bobbsey. Freddie was busy telling Flossie all the wonderful
things he had seen.
"Oh, I didn't do anything, ma'am," the boy said. "I sort of knew this
little fellow."
"You knew him?" questioned Uncle Daniel.
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