are no heavier than the mahogany
logs I used to lift and put in high piles when I lived in Siam. Come
here and let me try."

The elephant encircled Billy's body with his trunk and lifted him up
from the ground and over the fence as easily as if he had been a
feather. When he had raised Billy to the top of the fence, he unwound
his trunk and dropped him over into the next yard where his family
awaited him.

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When the elephant turned to get Stubby and Button to put them over the
same way, he found they had crawled through the hole the kids had
used.

Such a smelling of noses, and licking of faces you never saw as when
the Billy Whiskers family and their friends were once again reunited
after this long separation while Billy had been in the war in Europe.

"Isn't it too bad, my dear," said Nannie, "that we are all shut up in
this yard with no hopes of getting out? And I was just saying to Daisy
that if you were here, you would soon find a way to secure our
freedom."

"And I shall, my dear. I shall just wait until the keeper comes in
through the gate to look after the goats. Then I shall either butt him
over as he comes in or butt down the gate when he takes the padlock
and chain off. Anyhow, I shall find a way to get us out of here very
soon, I am sure. Now we will think only of the present and enjoy every
minute of being together. What fine kids the Twins have grown to be!
But I imagine they are just as mischievous as ever."

"Can you wonder at it when you stop to consider who their father and
grandfather are?" said Nannie.

"Gracious! What can be causing all that commotion over in the farther
corner of the yard, I wonder?" said Daisy.

"Where are the Twins?" asked Billy Junior.

"I don't know," answered their mother.

"Then I guess you will find that they are at the bottom of the fracas
over there. I'll go see," said their father, and off he trotted to
find out if the kids were in mischief.

Presently he came back, driving both kids before him. But what had
happened to them? They were as dirty as dirty could be and both were
crying.

"Oh, my precious darlings!" exclaimed Daisy. "Who has been hurting
you?"

"No one has been hurting them. They need a good spanking! Where do you
think I found them? In the middle of a ring of Angora goats, having a
fight with two kids about their own size. It would have been all right
to have had a boxing match, but they did not play fair. They lost
their