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Show Elephants at Work In Burma there are large lumber mills, and elephants are used for rolling roll-ing the logs Into position for the saws, an exchange says. Pushing with their heads, they run the logs up two Inclined In-clined skids to the platform; two elephants ele-phants do the pushing and a third ele- pliant acts as boss. In his trunk the boss carries a few links of anchor chain, which he uses as a whip If one elephant falls behind. When the whistle blows they all know that It Is time to stop work and eat. It makes no difference whether they have a log within a fraction of ail Inch of the platform ; the boss drops his anchor chain and gets out of the way, and the pushers step to one side and let the log crash. |