He tried to lift first one leg, then another, but it was hard work. The
water was beginning to rise about him. His feet were in mud puddles. He
struggled hard to pull them out, and then, all at once, he lurched to
one side, and fell over flat--right into a pool of water!
CHAPTER X
A VOYAGE HOME
Down pelted more and more rain, harder and harder, until the back yard,
where Archie had been playing with the Stuffed Elephant, was almost a
little lake of water. The puddle rose higher and higher around the
Stuffed Elephant as he lay on his side, unable to move because he was so
soaked with water--like a sponge.
Inside the house where Archie lived there was trouble, because the
little boy was hurt worse in his fall than was at first supposed. They
had to send for the doctor, and of course no one thought of the poor
Elephant.
"I'm glad I'm not out in this rain with my Doll," said Elsie, as she sat
at the window after the doctor had gone.
"Yes, it is a regular flood," said Mother, sadly thinking of her little
boy.
And still no one thought of the Elephant out in all the storm.
If Elsie remembered anything at all, she probably thought that Archie
had brought his Elephant into the house.
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