The kids slipped back into the goat yard the way they had left it, while Billy, Stubby and Button stood and talked to Nannie, the fence between them.
"Oh, if I could only find a way to get over into your yard," baaed Billy to Nannie.
"I have it!" said the elephant. "I can get you all over there if you don't mind being dropped a few feet."
"Certainly we don't, but how are you going to do it?"
"I'll just pick you up with my trunk and drop you on the other side of the fence."
"You can't do it," said Billy. "I am too heavy."
"Indeed, I can do it! I guess you are no heavier than the mahogany logs I used to lift and put in high piles when I lived in Siam. Come here and let me try."
The elephant encircled Billy's body with his trunk and lifted him up from the ground and over the fence as easily as if he had been a feather. When he had raised Billy to the top of the fence, he unwound his trunk and dropped him over into the next yard where his family awaited him.