TWO-TON SEA ELEPHANTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 10

TWO-TON SEA ELEPHANTS

Have you ever heaid of elephants that live in the sea? Though these animals are called sea-elephants they are not true elephants, but are the largest of what are called fin-footed animals. They are sometimes twenty foet long and weigh two tons! They have very large appetites and will devour forty pounds of fish a day. Yet they are said fu be able to fast for three months at a time.

Persistent Woman Beportor: What would you do if yoxx jumped out of the aeroplane and your parachute would not open? Fed-up Aviator: Go back and fetch another. The telephone bell rang in fhe ericket pavilion. "Is Mr Smithson there?" inquired a voice. "Sorry, he has just gone in to bat." '"Bight, then I'll hold the line!" Pat determined to pass his favourite “pub” on his way home. As he appi’oached it he became somewhat s'haky, but, plucking up courage, he passed it. Then, after going about 50 yards, he turned, saying to himself : “Well done, Pat, me boy. Come back and I’ll treat ve.”