Show elephant gave gava sick soldier a pill in the island of ceylon where there aro a great many elephants there was a young ono one which had been caught and tamed when it was a little thing thine the doctors at a hospital used to take it round the wards with them in the morning when tt it would see the sick soldiers take ther thear medicines and pills one morning a native soldier dropped his pill on tho the floor in on an instant the elephant picked it up with its trunk popped the pill into the mans open mouth and with a great puff blow blew it down the elephant in its wild state plucks tender leaves from the trees with its trunk food growing about the roots 0 of trees it digg up with its tusks it takes up water with its trunk and pours it down dow its throat when the flies ales worry it breaks off the branch of 0 a tree and making a hand of its tt trunk uses tho the branch like a fan from the tha childs dook book of knowledge TO |