am where he was standing, and so dirty the very
water he was drinking.

Now you see what a wise animal the elephant is! The only way he could
get clear water to drink was by having a long nose! And that is
exactly what happened many, many years ago--his nose became long
enough to reach the water from the bank. How that happened I shall
tell you in another book, as you will not understand it till you are a
year or two older.

All the grown-up elephants drink in this way, and also some of the
elephant children whose trunks have grown long enough to reach the
stream. But what about a baby elephant? Why, its Mamma fills her own
trunk with water, puts the tip into the baby's mouth and squirts the
water into it.

But now after watching the elephants--who are on our right, down the
stream--let us turn our eyes to the left, and look _up_ the stream.

CHAPTER II

The Law of the Jungle

Hush! Here come all the animals! The _buffaloes_, the _blue deer_, the
_red deer_, the _wild pigs_, the _hyenas_, the _wolves_, the _red
dogs_, and many others. Watch and see how each kind of animal comes;
it is not always in the same way. The moon is now shining clear above
the trees, and we can see a long way up the stream.

See the _buffaloes!_ They come a little _above the elephants_. But
they do not come one behind another in a line, like the elephants.
They come three or four together. They also have beaten down the
bushes there years ago, to make a drinking place; and it is wide
enough for three or four of them to drink at the same time, side by
side.

_How Buffaloes Come to Drink--in Rows_

But why must they drink three or four at the same time? Because the
buffaloes are like a body of soldiers, one row behind another.
Sometimes twenty or thirty rows make up a herd. We see only the first
row drinking now, but soon we shall see the others behind.

And why do the buffaloes come like a body of soldiers? Because they
are afraid of their enemy--the tiger! Once upon a time the buffaloes
lived scattered about, and many of them got eaten by the tiger, one at
a time. Then those that escaped from the tiger became wise; they
joined together like a body of soldiers, so that they could beat off
the tiger. How they came to do that, I shall tell you at another time.

But now let us watch the first row drinking. They are all _bull
buffaloes_, the Papas of the herd; you can tell that by their _huge
horns_, a yard long on each side