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040 SIS STRAND A AGAZINT

cortain that they wotldn't \\) Losume that he had offered

| | (hem most ol his clothes, :

I had some very zood friends T amonge the clephants ot M,

lohn Cooper, the fenous

7 tamer. Notably Blind / Billy, who had all the value / ol his lost sight 1 s solid / common scnse. bBut T owas speaking ol clothes. M. Cooper’s Detsy once ate a N oh -7 whole st exclusive of the . L boots, hut meclusive of cortain

pockets full of money and tobaceo. The reason Betsy

relrained from cating the boots was the simple one that they _ weren't there, which is why T should expeet hittle ot Dy ey for the clothes

’ ol our triend from the o A ) country. The cle- N

77 | phants would have Py e

them, and when o {’(\(\("’_\i i

[/ they had o N | centhvoye 2 LT \ o - |

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. \/ curl their trunksup (! // \ l / ‘ /‘ overhead and wait ' ] | [or further contribu \Q/ . 4 e T Gons. That s just hike C ‘ an o clephant. e can't understand when N2 R

volu have col Lo the end of vour resources, T o \

Hes is master of the clephants. Scott, whonm Jumbo | made famous, wis his predecessor, and, Tong ago, Godlrey, the bearward, kept the clephants. Jung Perchad, Sulia , Culli, Tinzo, and Solomon all respect Hes, and trumpet ! when he tells them WA so, Sulfe Culli will piek hine up \fl:fl

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