Though Jumbo streams of water poured,
The enemy a victory scored.

[Illustration: THE FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE ENEMY]




The Elephant Wounded.


Alas! for he so bravely fought,
Poor Jumbo wounded lay;
The ambulance they quickly brought
To where he fell that day.

"To Hospital this instant!" cried
The Surgeon in command;
"Don't let them say he would have died
If we'd not been at hand!"

"But, wait," he said, "till I with care
Have quite examined him!"
He probed him here, and probed him there,
And tested every limb.

"It's but a nervous shock!" he said,
"Since he's so large and fat;
You can't take him, and so, instead,
You'd better take his hat!"