He's one of the fellows that attacked us
last night. I haven't the least doubt about that."
"Yes, and he's got a button off his coat, too," added Teddy,
peering around Emperor. "What I want now is to see a fellow with
his collar torn off. I got a tent stake here by me that I'd like
to meet him with."
"You would do nothing of the sort, Teddy Tucker! Hello, what's
going on there?"
As Larry passed swiftly in front of Emperor, the old elephant's
trunk suddenly wrapped itself about the pail of water unobserved
by the discharged canvasman.
Emperor lifted the pail on high, quickly twisted it bottom side
up and jammed it down over the head of Larry. The latter went
down under the impact and before he could free himself from the
pail and get up, Emperor had performed the same service for him
with the tub of water.
Under the deluge Red Larry was yelling and choking, making
desperate efforts to get up. He struggled free in a moment,
and in his blind rage he hurled the empty pail full in Emperor's
face, following it with a blow over the animal's trunk with a
tent stake.
It was the elephant's turn to be angry now. He did not take into
consideration that it was he that was to blame for the assault.
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