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tures. A little table stood at the open flaps of the 
entrance and upon it were writing materials, with 
which Mr. Roosevelt already had started to write 
up the elephant hunt of the day before. His motto 
seems to be, “Do it now, if not sooner.” 
I sat on his cot, Mrs. Akeley on a small tin trunk, 
The Pigskin Library 
and Stephenson on another. The colonel squatted 
down on the floor cloth of the tent and began to 
show us one by one the various literary treasures 
from his pigskin library. The whole box of books 
was so designed that it weighed only sixty pounds, 
and was thus within the limit of a porter’s load. 
Some of the books were well stained from frequent 
