Iron County Record | 1937-12-02 | Page 5 | Indian Elephant Can Do Work of Forty Coolies

Indian Elephant Can Do Work of Forty Cooties Coolies A description of the Indian el elephant ele hant at work says cays A log that forty coolies can scarcely move the elephant will quietly lift upon his bb tusks tusk and holding it there with his trunk will carry it to whatever part of the yard he may be directed b by his driver He lIe will also using trunk j feet and tusks tusk pile tho the huge timbers timbers tim bers with the utmost precision Itis It Itis is II surprising to see the sagacious animal select and pick out particular lar timbers from the tha center of a large heap at al the drivers driver's command The elephants are directed by apok- apok en orders pressure of ot the drivers driver's feet and the goad Sometimes an animal will break his tusks tusk from I being forced by an Ignorant or brutal brut brut- brutal I al driver to carry an excessive load but generally he knows know his hll I own strength and refuses to lift more than Ulan his tusks will bear Should these Ulese break off oft close to the head the elephant would die If It only cracked they are bound with iron and rendered as serviceable ac as be be- be- be fore tore Knowledge of the elephant Ic II s increasing in creasing yearly says say a writer Inthe in inthe Inthe the Chicago Tribune Certainly the world knows him far better than It did a few hundred years ago when n Shakespeare accepting the common commo n belief that an elephant cannot lie down wrote ot or him In Troilus and Cressida act II 11 scene 3 3 The Tha elephant hath bath joints but none for courtesy his legs are for necessity not net for flexure u u I