Page:Jungle Joe, pride of the circus; the story of a trick elephant (IA junglejoeprideof00hawk).pdf/228

 and more perceptibly, the elephant moved forward.

The teamsters shouted themselves hoarse and plied their whips but it was no use. Ali was calling, "Come, Joie!" and Joie would come if it killed him.

Then one of the horses slipped and the others began to lose heart. From that point Joie walked them slowly back, not only ten feet but twenty, while the elephant-supporters shouted and threw up their hats.

When the pull was over, the head teamster came to Ali and shook his hand, and slapped Joie's sides.

"I wouldn't have believed it," he said. "That elephant is some horse after all."

But the great surprise to Ali came when Mr. Anderson placed the fat pocketbook containing five hundred dollars in