very quickly to obey its Mamma and Papa, and
afterwards its trainer or teacher. The elephant child even obeys the
very minute it is told to do anything; in fact, sometimes in the
jungle there is a sudden danger, even if the elephant child does not
see the danger. But its Mamma or Papa sees it.

Then the Mamma or Papa calls out to the child to stop, or come away,
or do something, _at once_; and if the child does not do it at once,
it may get killed. Among men folks, if a child runs out into the
street, and an auto or a street car comes suddenly, then if the child
will not obey its Mamma at once and do exactly as she says, the child
may be run over and killed. In the jungle the elephant child also has
sudden dangers like that, though in a different way.

In the next chapter I shall tell you a wonderful story about a boy
elephant who escaped a great danger because he obeyed his Papa at
once.

But sometimes it happens that a boy elephant is really naughty--just
like a bad boy among men. As you know, a bad boy among men usually
grows up to be a bad man, and then he gets into a lot of trouble. In
the elephant herd it is just the same; a bad little elephant grows up
to be a bad big elephant; it is then called a _rogue_. In another book
I shall tell you how the President of the herd orders all the police
elephants to stand in a ring around the rogue and give him a most
awful spanking. And they do that, not with their trunks this time, but
with their _tusks_--which hurt most dreadfully.

_How the Elephant Child is Bathed_

But now I shall tell you about the baby elephant when its Mamma calls
it to come and be bathed. It comes to the edge of the bank, and stands
facing its Mamma. Then the Mamma fills her trunk with water, brings
the trunk quite near the baby, and squirts the water all over it.

The baby may howl and jump about and make faces, but it _never runs
away_! Again and again the Mamma squirts the water, till all the mud
and dust of the jungle is washed away from the baby's body. Then she
tells the baby to play about on the bank again, while she attends to
the bigger children.

What has she got to do to them? She must teach them to swim!

Of course _all animals with four legs know how to swim naturally_;
their bodies float in the water quite easily, and they have only to
work their legs to move along in the water. But with elephants it is a
little different. Why? Just think!

I shall tell you. Although they