“There is nothing that we can lack here,” mused Koree; “a forest and a swamp include all human desires;” and then, after a pause, he added, “and Sosee.”
“And Orlee,” interposed Sosee.
“Love in a cottage” was long antedated by “love in a forest.” A sycamore tree was cottage enough for our first parents.
“O! O! O! O!” ejaculated Sosee, too frightened to say more, as she suddenly ran up a tree.
“Oo! Oo! Oo! Oo!” shrieked Koree, as he ran up another tree.
The cause of this sudden fright was a huge mammoth which slowly lifted itself from a clump of bushes and walked toward the lovers. A great hairy elephant, twice as large as those now existing, with long front legs, carrying his bushy body high up in the air, and a back gradually sloping to the ground, like a giraffe—such was the monster that confronted them.
KOREE AND SOSEE ENCOUNTER A MONSTER.