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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3168, 24 August 1881, Page 4

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We all know the nursery story of the tailor win) pinched the elephant's trunk when that intelligent animal was soliciting sweets through Snip's open casement, and how the wise beast, on returning tbe same route soon afterwards, regaled the tailor with a shower of muddy water she had carefully sucked up from the roadside, just to show him that she bore him no special ill, but that two could play at joking; but according to a note in fhe Hereford Times elephants can be grateful as well as vindictive. Some weeks ago Rostock and Wombwell's Menagerie again visited Tenbury. Our readers will remember the elephant Lizzie's wonderful recognition of Mr Tinley, chemist, of Teme Street, when on a visit to that town about two years since. The animal then went out of the procession to greet him at his shop door, rpmemVring him as her deliverer from intense pain, caused by an attack of colic, brought on through drinking cold water when journeying to Tenbury on a previous visit. Mr Tinley, on visiting the menagerie the other evening, was again at once seen and recognised by Lizzie, who embraced him with her trunk in such a manner as to cause some alarm to her keepers, bufc an affectionate hug for her preserver was al) tho poor creature intended. Doubtless her remembrance of her friend will never be effaced since this is the second time she has greeted Mr Tinley in such a startling manner.—Land and Water.