"But I wasn't lost!" the little chap insisted. "I knew where I was all
the time. Besides, the elephants were with me, and so was Frank, the
boy who was shooked. I saw him shooked and so did Bert, didn't you?"
and Freddie looked at his older brother.
"Well, we won't talk about that part of it," said his mother with a
smile. "It isn't nice to think about, and I am glad Frank is in a
place now where he will be kindly treated. Though perhaps Mr. Mason
did not mean to be cruel. He was probably very sorry at losing so much
money."
"I like Frank," said Freddie. "He let me, take hold of one of the
elephant's tooths."
"Oh, Freddie!" exclaimed Dinah. "It's a wonder he didn't cotch an'
bite yo, honey lamb!"
"Oh, I didn't take hold of one of his tooths away back in his mouth,"
explained Freddie, "it was the long tooth-pick tooth that stuck out
under his nose."
"He means the elephant's tusk," explained Bert with a laugh.
"Oh, Freddie! I hope you weren't in any danger!" his mother cried.
"What an escape he had!" sighed Aunt Sarah. "Suppose an elephant had
eaten him!"
"Pooh! Elephants don't eat anything but hay," said Freddie, who, of
course, did not mean to be impolite, speaking to his aunt that way.
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