ELEPHANT REMEMBERS.
A 'senseless' tailor, who frequentlyhad occasion .'to pass some gardens where an elephant was kept, took a cruel■•■ delight-- in teasing the helpless: Creature.- 1-;: ■ -"' • . , > ■ One day he would prod him with a 'small-stick; .another tinie he would^j hold" out .tempting bits.;of." food, which he : would."quickly withdraw,, roaring with laughter, when tho animal reachedout for them.'. Tho elephant bore these iiidignitios .with apparent indifference; but ono day as ho was being led past; the shop whero the tailor snfcurlcd up on a.low table,. Jin ; tnniocT iisido io. v little -wayside!; slreaiitj Urtjw a quantify o.l' water into his trunk and shot it full into the face o£ his astonishod enemy. ;. , : .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 15
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112ELEPHANT REMEMBERS. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 15
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