SENSE OF HUMOUR
ELEPHANT'S REACTION
DISLIKE FOR MAHOUT
"Ii think the 101 l owing story may he of interest," writes F.J., in the A. A'. Bulletin. "Many years ago my husband, who was in the Bengal Beliar; was S;he Maharaja's big game sliootirty. At mid-day tlie 'mahouts' having their tiffin, sitting their hacks to the elephants,, were some little way off. One !. elephants had been bullied t mahout, and disliked him. isband. saw it deliberately pick small pebble with its trunk, irow it, unerringly hitting the it' on the back, and instantly g away as if nothing had ned. It did this several times, lie man never could detect the stone Jiad been thrown
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 30, 3 December 1943, Page 5
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114SENSE OF HUMOUR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 30, 3 December 1943, Page 5
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