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they think the keeper is not looking, stick pins in her trunk, or pretend 
to give her fruit or nuts and then pull their hands back just as she thinks 
she is going to grasp the food. Naturally too much of this sort of treat- 
ment has made Queenie very suspicious of children who loiter too close 
to her fence, and she has often used her trunk, none too gently, to tumble 
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such trespassers over in the dust. They really deserve punishment, for 
her keeper will testify that she has the kindliest disposition that any 
elephant could have. She has been his constant care since he broke her 
in twelve years ago, and he has known her most of the twenty years of 
her life. Queenie is not yet full-grown, for elephants grow until they 
