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stll mayv I keep my faith m the clephant @ for assmull\' he will be worthy thereof. He, almost alone among living creatures, has never betrayved my trust. 1T behieved in the Tion— the picture-books of infancy taught me of his alour, his magnanimity, and all the rest : but the lion has turned out an impostor. 1 believed in the camel —his intelligence, his long-suffering docility 5 but the camel 15 a humbug. In the clephant T may till Ltieve, All those charming stories, wheremn the clephaint never forgets an injury, nor is ungratcful