"The Hippopotamus."
"Hip-po-pot-a-mus!" baby tried to say after him, adding, "he is not pretty, and I do not like him."
Tom was still less polite, and called the animal "beastly ugly;" though he seemed to admire the one-horned rhinoceros, which Gay thought still more frightful. "But how wallopy his skin is!" said Tom.
"Yes," said Mr. Barnum, "but he has a thinner skin under his heavy hide, which is only what Trixie would call his 'upper skirt'—eh, Toodles?" and the little girl laughed to think that he should know anything about such drapery.
When she saw the alligator she wished for his scaly skin, that she might have it made into slippers for papa.