"Of course there are. Didn't you see pictures of them on the
bills, Teddy?"

"I don't know. Dan Marts, the postmaster, says you can't set any
store by the pictures. He says maybe they've got the things you
see in the pictures, and maybe they haven't. There's a camel!
Look at it! How'd you like to ride on that hump all day?"
questioned Teddy gleefully.

"Shouldn't like it at all."

"I read in my geography that they ride on them all the time on
the--on--on Sarah's Desert."

"Oh, you mean the Sahara Desert--that's what you mean," laughed
Phil.

"Well, maybe."

"I should rather ride an elephant. See, it's just like a rocking
chair. I could almost go to sleep watching them move along."

"I couldn't," declared Teddy. "I couldn't any more go to sleep
when a circus is going by than I could fly without wings."

"See, there comes a herd of ponies. Look how small they are. Not
much bigger than St. Bernard dogs. They could walk right under
the elephants and not touch them."