AN INTERLOPER. 



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In a trice all the elephants were sending the water over 

 each other, the hose-like streams going up in the air, out 

 among the vegetation and against the flabby sides of the 

 monsters, with a promiscuousness and vigor that could not 



have been improved. Once a poorly-aimed hydraulic bomb, which the bull dis- 

 patched at the head of a lady near the side of the pool, missed its mark, and went 

 so far over into the jungle that it came near finding the two spectators. 



" My gracious ! " whispered Dick, who plainly felt the mist, " wouldn't they give 

 us a ducking if they knew we were here ! " 



" They might do more than that," replied Mr. Godkin, " for those elephants are 

 wild, and have intelligence enough to understand that all bipeds are their enemies. 

 Take care that they do not get sight of you." 



The huge beasts now began to vary the fun, showing an ingenuity that was as 

 surprising as it was amusing to the small but select body of spectators. 



Near one end of the pond stood the most diminutive member of the party. She 

 was in just far enough to cover her legs, her entire body being above the surface. 

 Standing thus, she filled her trunk and sent the water and spray flying far out 

 among the rest. The distance was twenty feet or more, and the curving stream 



