Not long after, the hippopotamus wagon pulls up beside Rosie, drawn by six highly doubtful Percherons.

The ten horses who pulled the hippopotamus wagon had been unhitched when the two elephants tried to pull it.

But, no matter how hard the elephants pulled, they could not pull the hippopotamus wagon out of the mud.

Up came two big elephants, and chains were put about their necks, and made fast to the hippopotamus wagon.

For her part, Rosie is carted out through each town in the hippopotamus wagon and then displayed in the menagerie.

Slowly at first, and then faster, the big hippopotamus wagon rolled out of the mud, and on to the firm, hard road.

The women follow immediately behind the hippopotamus wagon, dressed all in black and pressing elegant lace hankies to the corners of their eyes.