" Thus Steve, his clumsy innocence eluding the toils with all the grace of an agile hippopotamus.

The woman was very large both in height and in bulk, and she was heaving herself out of the truck in a way that reminded Casey oddly of a disgruntled hippopotamus he had once watched coming out of its tank at a circus.

They would have done the same with a baby or a full-grown hippopotamus.