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I meant what I said, and I said what I meant:

An elephant's faithful one hundred percent.

Mayzie finds Horton at the circus just in time to see her egg hatch. She demands the egg back, but is denied it by Horton and onlookers when it hatches into a tiny winged elephant.

Horton Hatches the Egg was adapted by Warner Brothers in 1942, directed by Bob Clampett. A couple of interesting gags appeared in the cartoon that were not in the original. A fish caricature of Peter Lorre says, upon seeing Horton pass by in a ship, "Now I've seen everything" and promptly shoots himself in the head. Mazie also does a breathy Katherine Hepburn ("raaaaaaaa-hlly I do") at several points.

The moral of the story is, always keep your promises.