Strange Sounds

Asher's elephant heard the strangest sounds, sounds he had never heard before, strange and wild sounds all around. He tried to hear each sound but there were so many, so he opened and closed his big ears one at a time. First he heard a whistling, then he heard a hissing, then he heard a roaring, and then he heard a snoring.
He thought about the whistling, how it whistled short, short, long, short, short, long. It was nice whistling. Asher's elephant thought about the hissing, how it hisssssed here and it hissssed there. It was splendid hissssing. Then Asher's elephant thought about the roaring, a running and leaping sort of roaring. It was playful roaring. Then he thought about the snoring, a hazy and a lazy kind of snoring. It was afternoon-napping kind of snoring. Then Asher's elephant heard a trumpeting, a whaaow and a waaah, just the sort of noise Asher's elephant made. And he wondered if it was his trumpeting he was hearing or someone else's; it didn't sound like his, but it did too. So he clenched up his trunk, he closed his mouth, he held his breath and he listened, he listened very carefully. He heard the whistling, and he heard the hissing. He heard the roaring, and he heard the snoring. And then Asher's elephant heard the trumpeting, and he knew it was not his, and so he breathed a deep breath. He was happy that he had not lost his trumpeting, and Asher's elephant was amazed by all the strange and wild sounds.

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