It was mainly at night, after the store was closed for the day, that the
toys had their fun--talking to one another, moving about, doing tricks,
and the like of that. Now all that the Stuffed Elephant could do was to
stand on his four sturdy legs, with his tail on one end, and his trunk,
almost like a second tail, at the other end of his body.
He had two white tusks sticking out on either side of his trunk, and at
first you might have thought these tusks were toothpicks. But they were
not. An elephant's tusks are really teeth, grown extra long so he can
dig up the roots of trees and the plants on which he feeds.
But a Stuffed Elephant doesn't dig with his tusks, of course. He never
has to eat, being already stuffed, you know. And the Elephant in this
story was well stuffed with cotton.
"I am sure this Elephant is going to be one of our very nicest Christmas
toys," went on Miss Geraldine Mugg, as she lifted more playthings from
the big box that had come from the workshop of Santa Claus at the North
pole.
"Yes, I wish we had more like him," added Miss Angelina.
The two ladies helped their father, Mr. Horatio Mugg, in his toy store.
It was a delightful place for children, and many a boy and girl would
have been glad to stay all day in the "Mugg Toy Shop," as the big sign
out in front named the place.
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