Well, what'd you see?" he asked Harry aloud.
"Saw an elephant, I tell you!", insisted the younger boy.
"I was in the tree, looking down, for a lot of us kids has
tried to peek through the fence and couldn't I wanted to see
what was there."
"And did you?" asked Ned.
"I sure did! And it scared me, too," admitted Harry. "All
at once, when I was lookin', I saw the big doors at the back
of the shed open, and the elephant waddled out."
"Are you sure you weren't 'seeing things,' like the little
boy in the story?" asked Ned.
"Well, I sure did see something!" insisted Harry. "It was
a great big gray thing, bigger'n any elephant I ever saw in
any circus. It didn't seem to have any tail or trunk, or
even legs, but it went slow, just like an elephant does, and
it shook the ground, it stepped so hard!"
"Nonsense!" cried Ned.
"Sure I saw it!" cried Harry. "Anyhow," he added, after a
moment's thought, "it was as big as an elephant, though not
like any I ever saw."
"What did it do?" asked Ned.
"Well, it moved around and then it started for the fence
nearest me, where I was up in the tree.
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