- Author:
- Trench Gascoigne, Gwendolen Galton
- Publication Info:
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London:
A.D. Innes and Co,
1896,
pg 93
Text on page 93
MISCELLANEOUS.
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bend it out with the help of his feet and trunk in the most cunning way, until it can be detached. It is affirmed that the elephants become so cute that they are able to distinguish the good logs from the bad ones ! and there is a saying at Maulmein that the elephants there shut one eye
elephant pushing a log into position.
and look along the beams to assure themselves that they are quite horizontal ! They certainly have a curiously precise manner of pushing the logs into their exact angle, as if anything that was not quite parallel hurt their sense of neatness. Each elephant has a man upon his head but theseand look along the beams to assure themselves that they are quite horizontal ! They certainly have a curiously precise manner of pushing the logs into their exact angle, as if anything that was not quite parallel hurt their sense of neatness. Each elephant has a man upon his head but these
