Show some elephants fond of tobacco tim buckley who knows elephants as a mother knows her own children said last night mat the story 0 the elephant cherishing revenge for the tailor who had given him a piece of tobacco and years after soaking him ft ath muddy water is all a fake elephants will not take tobacco or anything else it the do not want it even it they hive had it in their mouths and what is more I 1 have known elephants to be really fond of tobacco and eat it with pleas ire I 1 have had elephants that would steal a plug of tobacco out of a man s pocket and swallow the whole thing they do not like the tobacco but they do like the licorice men and boys frequently ghe them tobacco and other shingi which they do not like under the pretense of feeding them peanuts but the elephant is wise and he will simply toss such things to one side and go on the ordinary coi arse of his life without a thought of fill ing his trunk with maddy water and w etting the person who gave him the stuff louisville courier journal |