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“Oh, you will, will you?” exclaimed a voice back of Big Foot. “Well, you just let my Chunky alone after this! He can laugh if he wants to, I guess!”

And with that Mrs. Hippo, who had quickly swum to shore when Mumpy told her what was going on, gave Big Foot a shove, and into the water he splashed.

“Ha-ha!” laughed all the other hippo boys and girls, as they saw what had happened. “Look at Big Foot! Ha-ha-ha!”

Big Foot was very angry because Mrs. Hippo had pushed him in. But when he saw all the others laughing at him, he knew that he could not knock them all into the water, as he had knocked Chunky, so he made the best of it.

“Ha-ha!” laughed Chunky. “So you’re here too, Big Foot! I saw my mother push you in. She’s awful strong, she is! I hope she didn’t hurt you. She didn’t mean to if she did. Here are some nice sweet grass roots I dived down and pulled up off the bottom of the river. Have some?” and Chunky held out some in his mouth.

Now Big Foot liked grass roots very much indeed, as did all the hippos. So, though he still felt a little angry, he took them from Chunky, and when the big boy hippo, with one foot larger than his other three, had swallowed the sweet, juicy roots he felt much better.