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hug him and keep him warm.
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Just then there was a loud trumpeting heard, and Bluf put Bab-ba down to the ground, and Hoodo slid off into the grass, hissing. "Now Poon-dah is coming and you will be trampled to death. Good-bye, little Bab-ba, I hate you!"
But when Poon-dah came and saw the little white baby, he remembered that he had not always been a wild elephant, but had once himself belonged to a white man, and so he picked little Bab-ba up with his trunk and placed him gently on his back.
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And that's the position in which Bab-ba's Father found him, when at last he had understood Wooff-Wooff's barking, and had followed him into the jungle, accompanied by some native servants armed with guns and sticks. Wooff-Wooff traced the little boy by his scent, till they came upon him riding on Poon-dah's back.
And now a funny thing happened, for amongst the servants was one who had once been Poon-dah's keeper, and Poon-dah remembered him and allowed himself to be led by him to Bab-ba's home. And so they returned in triumph with Bab-ba and his Father on Poon-dah's back, and good Wooff-Wooff barking and frisking by his side.
The wicked Hoodo was justly punished, for just as he was going into his hole under the tree, he met an old enemy of his, Tiv, the Mongoose, and the two fought and fought for a long while, till at last Hoodo was exhausted and stretched himself out and died, while little Tiv sat up and rubbed his paws together to clean them, and then skipped off to his new little home under Bab-ba's verandah, where he still lives to keep away any other wicked snakes from harming him.
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