Elephant dance (1937)

bulls, came tumbling out with a roar, an avalanche of The Baby— bodies, big and little, in a rolling cloud of dust. agonized Last of all the enormous tusker, tail up and prodigious stride, as though hell were after him, and at his heels, our baby, running and running with all its little might, so tiny. 'Oh, big Daddy, here I am. I'm coming. Don't forget me.' They struck the water, and as they struck it their trumpeting became a tremendous roar. Cape said it was wonderful to hear in the microphone. They struck out to swim. Baby, oh baby, striking out after them, so terribly little. By the time he had struggled to midstream, the herd was over. And for agonized minutes we watched the little thing struggling, dazed, going round and round in circles, expecting every instant to see it go under. Frannie shrieked: 'Save the baby!' I shrieked. Barbie, on the other side of the river, was crying. For you just can't imagine how lovable the wee things are. Then a raft came gliding toward the wee head, the little creature was seized by the ear, and half on the raft, half in the water, held up by a rope around its body, it was towed across to the far shore. A great shout went up and waving of torches from our side. The baby, exhausted, lay in a snug nest of sand and gn(j 0ftne slept. Two watchers stayed by it. Early in the evening keddah the mother came down and took the baby away. And so ended our keddah. 131