THE COLONEL KILLS THREE ELEPHANTS 1C3 



thick-skinned rhino is sometimes used by cartoon- 

 ists as a symbol for "the trusts," and the story 

 seemed doubly appropriate as applied to this par- 

 ticular ex-president. 



Some member of our party then modestly ad- 

 vanced the suggestion that the colonel might some 

 day be back in the White House again. He 

 laughed and said that the kaleidoscope never re- 

 peats. 



"They needn't worry about what to do with this 

 ex-president," he said. "I have work laid out for 

 a long time ahead." 



Another member of our party then told about the 

 Roosevelt act in The Follies of 1909, in one part 

 of which some one asks Kermit (in the play) where 

 the "ex-president" is. "You mean the 'next presi- 

 dent,' don't you?" says Kermit. When Colonel 

 Roosevelt heard this he was immensely interested, 

 not so much in the words of the play, but in the fact 

 that Kermit had been represented on the stage- 

 dramatized, as it were. 



And as we left for our own camp the colonel 

 called out: "Now, don't forget. Just as soon as 

 we all get back to America we'll have a lion dinner 

 together at my house." 



