"I hope we are going to be friends, Mr. Nip," went on the Elephant.
"Please don't carry me away again."
Nip wanted to say that he would not, for he felt sorry because of the
trick he had played. But just then Elsie and Archie came running up, and
the dog could not talk, nor could the Elephant pretend to be alive, for
the eyes of the children were upon them.
"Oh, he has my Elephant!" joyfully cried Archie. "I guess you must have
hidden him, Nip, for you knew where to find him! Bring my Elephant
here!"
Nip put the Elephant down on the barn floor at Archie's feet, and then
the dog wagged his tail.
"He's asking you to forgive him," said Elsie.
"And I will," promised Archie. "But don't do it again!" he added,
shaking his finger at Nip.
"Bow wow!" barked the dog, and perhaps that meant he would not.
"Oh, I'm so glad to have my Elephant back!" said Archie, as he began
playing with his toy.
"And I'm glad to be back," thought the Elephant. "That Judge business
was a great trial!"
Through the spring and into the summer Archie had fun with his Christmas
Elephant. Then one day something very exciting happened. Archie was
playing out in the back yard, near a little brook, with his Elephant,
when along the front road came a hand-organ man and a monkey.
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