Jumbo Remembered!
The elephant, with a sort of humorous justice, is given to returning injuries or insults in kind. In Madagascar, an elephant’s keeper happening to have a coconut in his hand, thought fit out of bravado to break it on the animal’s head. The elephant made no protest at the time; but the next day, passing a fruit stall he took a coconut in his trunk and returned the keeper’s compliment so vigorously, that he killed him on the spot.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 92, 24 October 1947, Page 7
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81Jumbo Remembered! Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 92, 24 October 1947, Page 7
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