Elephant dance (1937)

Page scan 000141 from Elephant dance

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
000141
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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came up. And back they all came, the tusker in the True Stories lead as proud as punch. Meanwhile the baby had been hauled out of the pit and tethered. It was bawling and bawling. They thought to hush it by letting it loose to go to the mother. But no, it just bawled and bawled. Whereupon the tusker, completely fed up, took the situation in hand, gave the baby one huge toss with his tusks and sent it hurtling through the air. The chastened baby picked itself up and rushed to mother. She had another story, again about an elephant in a pit; this time another lonely, flirtatious tusker, like ours. Nightly he was allowed to visit his lady love over a well-worn path. Then a pit was dug under the path and guarding the pit at four corners were tethered four cows. The lady love was tethered at the far side. Mr. Gallant came; saw one cow. No, she wasn't the one. Saw another. No, not she. Another and another ... ah! There she was. And he made straight for his love and . . . into the pit. But it was night, and by night nothing could be done about roping him. And he began working with his tusks at the sides of the pit, crumbling the earth and stamping it under to build himself up and out of it. So Jubilee, a big tame tusker, was stationed at the pit edge to knock him back; which Jubilee did all night long. Jubilee's mahout had reason to thank Jubilee before the night was 95