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Garis, Howard R. (Howard Roger), 1873-1962

"Umboo, the Elephant"


Umboo learned to lie down and "play dead," he learned to stand on a
little stool, like an over-turned washtub, he learned to kneel down
over a man stretched on the ground, and not crush him with the great
body, weighing more than two tons of coal.
Other tricks, which Umboo learned, were to take pennies in his trunk,
lift up a lid of a "bank," which was a big box, drop the pennies in
and ring a bell, as if he had put money in a cash drawer. He also
learned to turn the handle of a hand organ with his trunk, to ring a
dinner bell, and do many other tricks, such as you have seen elephants
do in a circus.
Then, one day, the man from India came where Umboo was, and giving him
some peanuts, which our friend had learned to like very much, said:
"Well, now it is time you joined the circus. You know enough tricks to
make a start, and your circus-trainer will teach you more. So off to
the circus you go, Umboo! Off to the circus!"
And the next day Umboo went.


CHAPTER XV
UMBOO REMEMBERS

Brightly in the sun gleamed the white tents. In the wind the gay flags
fluttered.


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