“But we will not quarrel about who is to drink first here,” said one of the deer. “There is water in the tank, enough for all of us.”
“No,” said Shaggo, “here we are a happy family, and we will not quarrel.”
In time Shaggo grew to be very good friends with all the other animals of the zoo, but, best of all, he liked the deer, for they had come from the far West, the land of the prairies where he used to live, and they could talk to him about that country.
One day White Tail, the largest of the deer in the zoo, was eating grass near a wooden fence, and, in some manner, White Tail’s horns became caught in a crack of the boards. At first the deer thought he could pull himself loose, but the more he pulled and twisted the tighter his horn seemed to be caught.
“Help! Help!” finally White Tail called to his animal friends. “I am caught in the fence and can not get loose!”
Some of the other deer tried to pry him loose with their horns, but they could not.
“Oh, if only Bundo, the big elephant were here, he could get me loose!” cried White Tail. “With his strong head he could break the board that is holding me fast.”
But Bundo was in another part of the zoo then, and no keepers were near, or one of them would have helped the deer. Then Shaggo saw what the matter was.
“Ho there!” cried the mighty buffalo. “Stand aside, everybody, and I’ll get White Tail loose!”