I'll put dis Leffelant on a board till
Ah comes back from de sto'. Den Ah'll take him home wif me!"
Jeff looked around until he found a flat board, large enough to hold the
elephant. Putting the toy on this board, Jeff laid it to one side, and
ran on to the store. He did not want to take the Elephant with him for
fear some one would see it and ask him about it.
But Jeff was not to have that Elephant. While the colored boy was at the
store the rain came down harder than ever, making so much water that the
little brook in Archie's back yard rose higher and higher.
So high did the brook rise that the water reached the board on which the
limp and soaking Elephant was lying on his side. And then the water
lifted up the board, Elephant and all, and floated them down stream.
"Oh, my!" thought the poor Stuffed Elephant. "This is the last of me! I
am going on a long voyage! I shall never see Archie again!"
Down the stream he floated on the board which was like a boat. Once a
fish poked his head out of the water and called:
"Who are you and where are you going?"
Before the Elephant could answer the swift current had carried him
farther downstream and away from the fish.
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