Show deady evela 0 N fd fairy i tale i e MARY Y GRAHAM 1 union BOSS ELEPHANT in my homo home country said bald the tha ele pliant who nybo had always gono golla by th a namo name of boss elephant 1 11 I was wa really n aboss boss that was how I 1 got my name elephants used ased to work well in and about the lumber camps and mills they taught quickly and they knew how to roll the logs and push them into position before the ls were to bo be sawed but I 1 was boss if they do I 1 would push them into po and give them little just juat to show them mom that they Nv erent doin doing g right 1 I was brought over by a master who evha had ft a hard almo getting the elephants on tho the boat he got me to lead the way and we walked onto the boat with tho the master begging us and talking to us so wed coddo do just right as the tha ship master like elephants so our master wanted us to td behara our best beit and I 1 was good I 1 listened to my master as aa lie ho talked to me and I 1 lid did os as lie ho said lie he was so patient and so kindly oh yes my life has been far from dull I 1 am a good swimmer and many has been the river swim 1 have had many A animals havo have had interesting experiences ono one man who Is devoted to animals has pet monkeys in hla his home when ho he Is away from home tho the monkeys do db all sorts sorta of things to the house hous ojust just as naughty children will they move everything about and take the things from one place and put them in another oli oh they have the greatest scra scramble rable at times and are ara up to all sorts of mischief mis eliter this man has one pet monkey from british guiana known as the cited howler he Is very tame and he ha sits at table and eats so nicely besides this he Is taken off on trips and has a n splendid time of it it if tho the 2 I 1 h A few tricks family ore are Ble sleeping later than they should in the morning red goes about and pulls at their bedding he also makes a very sad face and gives a special kind of a whine when h hu Is hungry ile ho has a sound box in his throat and he makes deep roaring sounds and 1 this Is why he has bus been given the tha name of howler it Is well when keepers and people understand animals for so much depends on care and affection even an el elephant pliant wants affection in his life dear me id be miserable if my keeper care for me dont ever wink just because im so big that thero affection and lave in my elephant heart animals know so much too think of the way animals can find their way home niter after they have been lost and how they can find their masters long long distances away and think too ot of the animals dhove been taken to places in cages and yet who have been been able to get buck back to the homes where their owners were even though they had bad never never gone lovertha ov ertha erthe ground themselves but had bad merely boen been carried along but hush dushl I 1 outside of my yard I 1 hour hear a meadow lark he Is over in yonder field just just beyond the ool 1 41 I will not talk any more for you will want to hear the meadow lark he stayed up all winter and though ho he was about when it was very cold lie he did not care to sing while NOW a it was too too bitterly cold yet ho he Is singing now and there Is n n the ground I 1 the sun Is warm and that Is what he likes though but boss elephant clephan t must not talk any more now he has fins talked enough his keeper Is coming around and he hb will do a few tricks for the visitors and the heeper deeper will sit on his shoulder you see I 1 am speaking of myself most as though I 1 were speaking of another person by saying baying lids his sho shoulder uldee ins instead tead of almy nay shoulder should pr 1 but I 1 hope ive given a nice little talk and that youve enjoyed what you have heard indeed I 1 have sald billie brownle brownie and boas elephant waved his arnn ai W farewell 2 |