. Two in a zoo . f. Great patches ot skin tell from mytrunk, leaving my wounds raw and I suffered in the full belief that mywounds were mortal, and that I shouldnever see thee again, my beloved, when oneday the Keeper brought to my stall a largeman with yellow hair and beard, who carriedin his hand a black bag, and who, as he ex-amined my wounded trunk, kept sayinghum and ha in a gruff voice. Yet I feltin my heart that he desired to afford merelief- Remarkable! Most remarkable!It was the same gruff voice; but again thelittle Limping Boy was unable to discoverwhence it came, and s
. Two in a zoo . f. Great patches ot skin tell from mytrunk, leaving my wounds raw and I suffered in the full belief that mywounds were mortal, and that I shouldnever see thee again, my beloved, when oneday the Keeper brought to my stall a largeman with yellow hair and beard, who carriedin his hand a black bag, and who, as he ex-amined my wounded trunk, kept sayinghum and ha in a gruff voice. Yet I feltin my heart that he desired to afford merelief- Remarkable! Most remarkable!It was the same gruff voice; but again thelittle Limping Boy was unable to discoverwhence it came, and so gave his attentiononce more to the elephant. Therefore, when men came with ropes,said Mahmoud, I made no resistance, but 81 TWO IN A ZOO lay down of my own accord and sufferedthem to bind me. Thereupon the gruffman opened his black bag and took there-from sundry bright knives and needles; alsosome bottles and strips of gauze. Thoughhis voice was gruff, I C^fr found his touch most soft /^ ?\ and , he. bathed my wounds with some sweet-smellingstuff, and then, with a keen knife—so keenwas it that I knew not when it touched me,though it brought streams of blood—theman pared away the diseased skin. I 82 T \V O IN A ZOO confess that the gruff mans next act puzzledme somewhat at hrst. While his helpersheld my trunk out straight, ever and anonbathing it with a soothing liquid, he washedwith great care the thin, tender skin undermy forelegs. A sharp pain, at which Imade no outcry, however, in the same re-gion, caused me to turn my eyes in that di-rection. The gruff man, with another verysharp knife, was taking from my legs narrowstrips of the living skin and laying them,one after another, on the raw flesh of mvtrunk. Ere long the wounds were all cov-ered, and when strips of cloth had beenbound about them, holding them fast, theropes were taken from me, and I was per-mitted to rise. From that day all my painceased, and soon only the scars which thouhast seen, O Light ot
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