Elephant Cubs In Motor Pram Boosted Uphill
LONDON— - Dixie is an eiephaht, attd when at home slie lives ih the W liipSnacle Zoo and Mangal Peary, They inade a journey reeently whieh they wero taken by two motor- trailers. On the r.eturn journey the coiivoy stuek fast on a hill. Something had to be done as motorears wete piling up in iong queUeS. Dixie was indueed to come down i'roxn her trailer and, as her attendant said aftefWards, seemed to realize at once what was wanted. She put her head against the baek of the traiier containing her oifspring and pushed it steadily to the hilltop, Then, amblihg baek she did the same with. het own trailer, after whieh she preferred to board it by walking onto it baekwards. When the convoy moved off aecompanied by the eheers of the assembled motorists^ Dixie waved her trunk ih graceful acknowledgment. The latest wieked libel Ofl. a ttOblg race begins in the usual way with fout men of mixed nationalities going into a' bar. The American stood a round, tho Englishman stood a ronnd, the Irishman Stood a round, and the Scot stood around.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 7, 23 January 1937, Page 12
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