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| | Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Horton the Elephant |
 | | The bird then disappears for months, but Horton, whose motto is "I meant what I said and I said what I meant; an elephant's faithful, 100 percent", never abandons his post, despite the amazing (and amusing) difficulties this entails. |
 | | In 1954, Seuss wrote a sequel, Horton Hears a Who, in which poor Horton is again victimized and ridiculed for his big-hearted protection of the helpless this time, a race of microscopic folks who live on a dandelion. |
 | | The second "Horton" book, too, was faithfully adapted into a cartoon when, in 1970, producer/director Chuck Jones another of Seuss's "Private Snafu" collaborators turned it into a prime-time animated TV special. |
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