on]

[Illustration]

Just then there was a loud trumpeting heard, and Bluf put
Bab-ba down to the ground, and Hoodo slid off into the grass,
hissing. "Now Poon-dah is coming and you will be trampled to
death. Good-bye, little Bab-ba, I hate you!"

But when Poon-dah came and saw the little white baby, he
remembered that he had not always been a wild elephant, but
had once himself belonged to a white man, and so he picked
little Bab-ba up with his trunk and placed him gently on his
back.

[Illustration]

And that's the position in which Bab-ba's Father found him,
when at last he had understood Wooff-Wooff's barking, and
had followed him into the jungle, accompanied by some native
servants armed with guns and sticks. Wooff-Wooff traced the
little boy by his scent, till they came upon him riding on
Poon-dah's back.

And now a funny thing happened, for amongst the servants was
one who had once been Poon-dah's keeper, and Poon-dah remembered
him and allowed himself to be led by him to Bab-ba's home. And
so they returned in triumph with Bab-ba and his Father on
Poon-dah's back, and good Wooff-Wooff barking and frisking by
his side.

The wicked Hoodo was justly punished, for just as he was
going into his hole under the tree, he met an old enemy of
his, Tiv, the Mongoose, and the two fought and fought for a
long while, till at last Hoodo was exhausted and stretched
himself out and died, while little Tiv sat up and rubbed his
paws together to clean them, and then skipped off to his new
little home under Bab-ba's verandah, where he still lives to
keep away any other wicked snakes from harming him.

[Illustration]

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