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night and they were all walking — and very 

 soon he was quite a long way behind them all. 



This made him furious and he refused to 

 go any further. Lifting up his trunk in de- 

 fiance, he roared and squealed, squealed and 

 roared, until every elephant in front of him 

 joined in and the people asleep in their houses 

 woke up in terror and thought the end of the 

 world had come. One by one the other ele- 

 phants began to run; when Coco saw this 

 and realized that he could not run too on ac- 

 count of his hobbles, he grew angrier than 

 ever. 



Finally he was quieted and the others were 

 collected together— all had run in different di- 

 rections, being by this time wildly excited— 

 and the rest of the journey was performed 

 quietly and without any further trouble un- 

 til they arrived at their destination, which 

 the trainer and his men were only too thank- 

 ful to reach, being half dead from exhaustion. 



Now it is not to be wondered at that, after 

 a few years of this kind of thing, Coco got 

 a bad name. He is not a bad-tempered ele- 



