Timokles moved to rise, and instantly the suspicious eyes of the young hippopotamus-sculptor flashed.

Zénaïde ran up and down stairs twenty times each day with the movements of a young hippopotamus.

Suspecting that this herb was the cause of their contumacy, we took a young hippopotamus, and kept him without food till he became quite ravenous.

"Juno," said he, "I guess you'll have to take charge of this young hippopotamus, the poor little fellow has lost his mother."