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“Stop! Stop!” he spluttered. “Stop right

there! There’s been a big mistake!”

The elephant was following very nicely

and swung her trunk around the flowers in

the garden.

“You’re right,” said one of the men. “We

can’t take an elephant into a house. We’ll

put her in the back garden shall we?”

By then half the neighbours in Chicken

Street were staring out of their windows.

Mr and Mrs Brown and Poppy followed

the elephant around the side of the

bungalow. Once on the grass in the small

back garden, the men let go of the harness

reins. One of them went back to the lorry for

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