AN ELEPHANT’S GOOD TURN.
A few days ago the entire populft-* tion of the little town of Ljusdal, in northern Sweden, was out in the streets enjoying tho unusual and. impressive sight of a German circus parading the main street with flying banners and gay music. Suddenly there was a cry of fear in the crowd, for in the middle of the road; quite alone and-seemingly paralysed with fright, was a fivc-year-old boy in danger of being crushed by the elephant heading tho parade. No one rushed to save him, for the little one was almost under the feet of the elephant, and everybody expected a catastrophe. Tlieii, at the last moment, the huge animal tenderly seized, the child with his trunk, lifted him out of the way o f't'he procession, and deposited him gently by the side of the street.
The crowd cheered with delight, and the elephant went calmly on his way, evidently unconscious of the great popularity he had won in Ljusdal.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)
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165AN ELEPHANT’S GOOD TURN. Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)
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