The next morning the animals got up early, and the elephant said he
thought that they ought to go down where the circus train had been
wrecked, and see if there was anything more that they could bring up
and put in the cave, as they had plenty of room now.
But while they were talking about the way they would do the work, they
heard the beaver's tail go "B-a-n-g, b-a-n-g!" and they all looked up,
and what do you think they saw? The queerest kind of an animal.
He looked like a small bear, but he had very long hair on his back and
hind legs, and his front legs were much shorter than his hind legs. But
that was not the queerest thing.
The little Cub Bear said, "Oh, see his nose! It looks as if he had
caught the end of his nose in a trap, and had pulled and pulled until
he had stretched his nose like a piece of taffy, and had made it as
long as my leg. Did you ever see such a long nose in the whole world?"
The elephant said that he had a very long nose. But the little Cub Bear
said that he wasn't talking about trunks that had fingers and thumbs on
the end of them, but that he was talking about real noses. Then the
Papa Bear and Mamma Bear said they never, never in the world thought
that any animal would have such a nose. The Papa Bear asked the Circus
Bear what the animal was?