But just then Little Elephant went "Kerchooo!" And he sneezed so hard he blew his mother's nightcap right off.
"O-ho! I see," said his mother. "I told you not to go out in the rain yesterday without your rubbers. And now you have a cold."
"I haben' godt a gold, honesd I haben'," whined Little Elephant. And he sniffed a great big sniff.
"Here, blow your nose," said his mother, and she held out a large handkerchief of his daddy's. And Little Elephant blew a great big b-l-o-w.
"Now," said his mother, "you can't go to school today."
"Oh, dear," said Little Elephant, looking very sad, "I ca'd go do school!" (What he really meant was—I can't go out and roller-skate.)
"And you'll have to stay in bed all day," his mother went on.
"Oh, I don'd want do stay in bed all day," sobbed Little Elephant. And he stamped his feet up and down.
But Mother was very firm and she took Little
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