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Show ELEPHANTS AND DRESS. Animals Chosen to Lead Royal Processions Pro-cessions in India Splendidly Garbed. Elephants nro fond of finery nnd do-light do-light to see themselves decked out with gorgeous trappings. Tho nntlvo prlnccj sf Indln nro very particular In choosing choos-ing their stnto elephnnts nnd will glvo fabulous sums for nn animal that exactly ex-actly meets the somewhat fanciful Standards they have erected. For theso they havo made cloths of silk so heavily embroidered with gold that two men are hardly able to lift them. Tho clophant which usually led tho state procession of a rajah being 111, tho magnificent trappings wero placed on ono which had up to that time occupied only a subordinate place. Tho nnlmal, delighted at Its finery, showed Its glco by so innny little squeaks and kicks of plensuro thnt gentrnl attention was attrncted to It. Not long nftor another state procession proces-sion was formed, nnd tho previous wenrer of tho gold cloths, bolng restored re-stored to health, took Its nccustomod pinto nnd trappings, when tho now do-graded do-graded beast, Imagining, perhaps, that ho was bolng defrauded of his promo tlon, wnB with grent difficulty restrained restrain-ed from nttncklng tho lender of the parade. |