Show elephants at work no one can see the elephants at work at rangoon securing and piling into stacks the logs of teakwood which are floated down the nver river from the great forests of the interior without forming a high opinion of their utility as workers day after day they work in the yards pushing and pulling the logs and conveying them to the places where they are built up with apparently human intel when required to drag huge weights a long rope is used and they will put enormous energy into the business leaning forward with their heads almost on the ground and kneel ing to the strain lighter loads they move by means of a loop of rope round the log which the they take in their teeth and half pull halt half carry it on their tusks into its place |