the pachyderm drawled as he indolently stretched himself.

"Is that beast gone away yet?" "It has," answered the pachyderm.

I'll bet it could rip Elephant in two without even straining itself!" "Let's not discuss that," shuddered the pachyderm.

The child looked up from her game and smiled at the pachyderm.

But I'm sure our pachyderm is up to it, if anyone is.

He was no larger than he had been as a cat, but his shape was very clearly that of a pachyderm.

" "But you do make a wonderful bird," agreed the pachyderm.

" "How about Glinda?" suggested Tweaty, who was still in the form of a small orange pachyderm.

" "Certainly not," replied the pachyderm.

The large pachyderm could feel a tear welling up in his left eye, and he brushed it away with his trunk.

You have witnessed the death-defying dives of the Demon Discobolus; you have laughed with the comical clowns; you have thrilled with the hurrying horses; and you have gasped at the ponderous pachyderms.

The eastern continent had then, as now, its great pachyderms, elephants, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus; South America its armadillos, sloths, and ant-eaters; Australia a crowd of marsupials; and the very strange birds of New Zealand had predecessors of similar strangeness.

The heritage of the world comes at last to the pachyderms.

[Illustration: THE CHEERFUL PACHYDERM.

Agonised yells to the gentleman who guided the deliberate steps of the pachyderm from a coign of vantage on the back of his neck, awoke him to an appreciation of the situation.

Meanwhile, towering over the scrubby bushes and surrounded by a dusty halo, the dilatory pachyderm bore down upon us, and, after the mahout had been interviewed in unmeasured terms by my host, went rolling slowly to the station to pick up the ladies.

They adore his supreme skill in thrusting the irritating lancet of his humour into bulging excrescences on the flank of that monstrous pachyderm of Europe, the German.

Great holes, made by the feet of the enormous pachyderms, riddled a soil softened during the rainy season.

This pachyderm is new to us.

She has given me to understand that she doesn't want me around, and I'm not enough of a pachyderm to get in the way of her arrows again.

He was the Grouchy who made futile Grant's advance upon Richmond and he blundered at Fort Fisher, but he was a pachyderm of the toughesttoo thick-skinned to be troubled by the scratches of criticism, always floundering to the front with unquenched energy, sometimes a power for good and sometimes for evil.