"Yes, you did, too!" barked Nip. "And, just for that, I'm going to play
a trick on you!"
"Please don't!" begged the Elephant.
"Yes, I will!" growled Nip, who was a little angry, and not as kind as
he might have been. "I'm going to carry you away off!" he barked.
Then, before the Elephant could do anything to save himself, Nip, the
big dog, caught the soft Stuffed Elephant up by his back and carried him
into a dark and distant part of the barn.
CHAPTER VIII
AN ELEPHANT JUDGE
"Let me go! Oh, please put me down! Where are you taking me?" called the
Stuffed Elephant to Nip, the big dog.
Nip did not answer. This was not because he could not speak the toy
language or the language of Stuffed Elephants. But Nip held Archie's
Christmas plaything in his mouth, and you know a dog can't even bark
when he has anything in his mouth. He can only growl.
Now, Nip was not a bad dog. And though he was playing a trick on the
Stuffed Elephant, still Nip was not cross enough to do any growling. So
he just kept still, and trotted along the barn floor, carrying the
Elephant.
Nip, being a big dog, had no trouble in carrying the Stuffed Elephant,
though the toy was rather large.
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