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any sorc as cvidence of record height except oneat the verny top. Thos three inches make a gloomy creature of Jung Perchad when o there are no buns, and ho has leisure to brood. The despicable atom of measurcment is - being contimually hurled at his wrinkled head, and cven Ies shows him no mereve = Ohe dears savs the young lady visitor, twhat o great clephant 17 And Jung Perchad feels the sinful pride rise within him. Then the voung lady savs, Is o heas big as Jumbo was?” and Jung Perchad’s hewrt asoveady to break, for well he o knows Hes's too truthful vephee Zhee tnches fesse Ol that three inches! Where s the glory ol heimg the hivoest olephant in the Gardens ol the Zoological Socicty ol London only to he Torever rennmded of an insignificant inferioriyy to o a poerlfect stranger. who s dead?

and serve hime right,

probablv. Jung Ter LTS

chad crinds his L teeth he hasn't tusks- no matta -1 1y time will come And he broods, and resolves to cat every carthly thing he meets, Gl he finds something that makes him crow : and matures mechanical plans Tor

cetting his back nearer the crown ol that L arch, until the last inquirer after those = three inches has left, the gates are shud,

and night o falls and his legs grow unsteady heneath him, and give way = and poor Tung Verchad and all s sorrows sink mto e grey, grunting heap of slumber.

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