Ma didn't remember them, but she remembered Barnum, because Barnum lectured on temperance, and she said she hoped pa would emulate Barnum's example, and pa said he would, and then he took a watch chain with links as big as a trace chain and spread it across his checkered vest, from one pocket to the other, with a life-size gold elk hanging down the middle, and ma almost had a convulsion.

and I got him into the troop, and we presented him to the Elk Patrol, because they had a vacant place on account of Tom Slade being away in France.

And if it was the Elk Patrol I'd be sure to hear Bert McAlpin because he's a human victrola record.

So here's my chance to do a good turn and I have to thank the honorable Elk Patrol for giving me the chance."

The hippopotamus floundered in the Severn, the rhinoceros ranged over the south-western counties; enormous elk and oxen, of species now extinct, inhabited the vast fir and larch forests which stretched from Norfolk to the farthest part of Wales; hyenas and bears double the size of our modern ones, and here and there the sabre-toothed tiger, now extinct, prowled out of the caverns in the limestone hills, to seek their bulky prey.

It was early summer; the elk cows had just given birth to their young, and, the night before, the dog had succeeded in parting from its mother an elk calf not more than five days old, and had driven it down into the marsh.

When he saw that the elk could not save herself, he ran away as fast as he could, for he had begun to think of the beating he would get if it were discovered that he had brought a mother elk to grief.

The man must have discovered that it was he that had caused the death of the elk, and now he was going back to the manor to be thrashed before he was shot!

Could it be possible that his life was to be spared simply because he had felt uneasy about the elk?

When all was quiet at the lodge, when no footsteps were heard on the road, and the game-keeper was working in his garden, Karr would amuse himself playing with the baby elk.

The master was pleased with the proposal, the game-keeper was distressed, but had not the power to say no; so it was decided that the elk should be sold.

He did not have the broad antlers, high hump, and long mane of the mature elk; but he certainly had strength enough to fight for his freedom.

The elk glanced slyly at the dog, who jumped the fence many times a daylittle as he was.

Some large animals were grazing on this forest meadowan elk bull, several elk cows and a number of elk calves.

"I never dreamed that an animal could be so stately!" Grayskin walked over to the elk, but almost immediately he came back to Karr, who had remained at the edge of the clearing.

Karr asked when he came up to the elk.

" Karr understood that the elk had difficulty in expressing what they wished to say, and he tried to help them.

"Well met in turn!" answered the elk.

," said Grayskin, "I have never heard of an elk killing a harmless creature.

"It was you who taught me that the elk are one with the forest," said Grayskin, and so saying he parted from Karr.

"The elk bull lay there calmly, but the elk cows seemed to feel uneasy.

"The elk bull lay there calmly, but the elk cows seemed to feel uneasy.

"'You just lie down!' said the elk bull.

"We had hardly reached our regular flying altitude, when we saw the elk bull come out from the thicket.

The elk was heavy, and with every step he sank to the bottom of the drift.