ILLUSTRATIONS

[Midnight Pool: Animals Drinking][Frontispiece]
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[The Buffaloes and the Blue Deer][15]
[An Elephant Giving himself a Shower Bath.][25]
[An Elephant Mamma Carrying her Child across the River][33]
[An Elephant Breaking a Tree with his Foot][45]
[Elephant Pulling Bananas out of a Tricky Trap][57]
[The Buffalo that Lives in India][63]
[The Tiger and the Ring of Buffaloes][79]
[Tame Water Buffaloes Plowing in the Rice Fields][82]
[Antelope][103]
[Elk][109]
[Arabian Camel—with One Hump][129]
[Bactrian Camel—with Two Humps][129]
[Sand Storm in the Desert][134]
[Crossing the Desert with Camels][139]
[Polar Bear][155]
[Himalayan Black Bear][163]
[A Bear Fighting a Block of Stone][169]
[A Flamingo Colony][175]
[Snowy Egrets][185]

THE WONDERS OF THE JUNGLE

CHAPTER I

The Midnight Pool

My dear, I shall tell you all about the wonders of the jungle. You have seen many animals in the zoo or in a circus—elephants, bears, lions, tigers, leopards, and many others. But the jungle is the place where these animals live before they are brought to the zoo or the circus.