Article February 21, 2022 Issue

100 percent faithful

Lois Degler

Do you know the story about an elephant named Horton? He offers to help his friend, a bird named Mayzie, by sitting on her egg. She flies off to take a vacation, and Horton keeps his promise to sit on the egg. He stays through rain, lightning, and thunder. He stays through sleet and snow. He even stays when his friends laugh at him. No matter what, Horton keeps his promise to stay in the nest on the egg. He says,

“I meant what I said
And I said what I meant. . . .
An elephant’s faithful
One hundred percent!”
(Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg).

At the end of the story, a baby bird hatches, and it looks like Horton, with a tail and a trunk like his. And everyone is happy, 100 percent.

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