Identifier: audubonmag12188789nati (find matches)
Title: The Audubon magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (New York, N.Y. : Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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y. You neednt make any bread—need he? (this to the chief Elephant). Theman that bakes my cakes, can bake yoursalso. Charley conceived a dim idea that thepossession of a white Elephant might provemonotonous after a while, and that to bepossessed by a white Elephant might besomething still worse, and as the men keptsilent all this time, the remarks made by theElephants left Charley a little in doubt as Charleys Wonderful Journeys. 255 to whether they or the men were the mas- very intelligent, of course; men are intelli-ters, so he kept his mouth shut and his ears gent beyond question. We can send themopen. up to cut branches of the fig tree far out ofThe chief Elephant observing his silence our reach; they have a knack, too, of load-attempted to range up alongside of him for ing a days supply on our backs so that weconversation, but was checked by his rider, can carry it without its falling off; they plowwho misunderstood his intentions. You the ground, too, and raise grain, and grind
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yes, thats nice, said he, as CHARLEY USED THE STIFF SCRUBBING BRUSH VIGORORSLY. stupid brute, roared the Elephant, cantyou keep still ? Ive a good mind to pullyou down and trample you under foot fordigging that nasty iron into my raw spot. The rider sat stupidly stolid, for he didntunderstand a word of what was said. If we could only make them understandus, said the Elephant to Charley, wecould do something with them. They are it, and bake the flour into cakes; and theyknow how to draw water, and to wash andscrub us. In fact, without man we couldnever have reached our present state ofcivilization. But they try ones temperdreadfully sometimes, and if it wasnt thatwe cant do without them, I should some-times be tempted to run amuck, tramplethe whole village under foot, and go back 256 Charley s Wonderful Journeys. to the jungles again. If we could onlymake them understand our language wecould easily keep them in awe. These remarks were received by a gen-eral grunt of approval. Didnt you

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