Show 9 Its irtle tl Elp orphan hants the elephant Is so bulky we can hardly believe that be he is 1 really a moat restless creature and the natives have lave a saying that an elephant a shoulder la Is never still A curious instance of their habits is fiver giver by a sea captain in whose steamer forty ele chants had been the vessel was anchored in a perfectly amoc smooth ith cea sea off the coast of zanzibar but to the great surprise of the passengers the strainer began to roll at first they supposed the motion to be caused by taj swell but when the hert kert increasing there wis a general alarm and the captain maile made an in opec tion of the ship then I 1 it t was repealed revealed that the elephants had in some way found that by swaying to and fro I 1 all together a rocking motion was produced due 1 which seemed to please the them m immensely so the great heads and bodies rolled and swung in unison until the izamer earner which had no other cars and rolled light was in lium imminent danger of rolling clean over the drivers were ere hurried down into the hold and after a great deil of shouting and thumping they made the elephants arf break ak step so to speak and thus stopped their dangerous mus clint |