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Show A"HliLrTLr!pTiAHT7 It Bonn tleletd TIit tho l'uinp Triraa'1 Was Jnt I,cvl. In India domesticated olephauts nro usually glran drink from largo woodou troughs filled with woll vatcr by mcanvof n pumr. and It Is commonly an elephant tlat tllh this trough Bvcry morning he ff'ios regularly to Ills tatlc Wbllo vlilinif a friend nt his. duo resilience in India n correspondent correspon-dent of tho .Manehrotpr Ktamlncr taw a larjjc elephant cugatod In pumping such a trough full of water. Itu continues. "Ill passing I noticed that ono of tho two tree trunks which supported tho trougii at either end had rolled from Its plaeo, so tho trough, still clovatod at ooo extremity, would begin to oiup-tv oiup-tv iteol fas soon na the water reached tho level of tho top nt tho other end, which lay on the ground. I sloppat) to sea if tbo elephant would discover anything v.Tbng Boon tho wator bo gan to mu off at tho end which had lost Its support The ntilmnl showed slgna-of perplexity when ho saw thia, but as thu ntul nearest him larked much df being full ho continued to purap Finally, bcelng that tho water continued to pass of?, ho left tho pump handle and began to consider tho phenomenon phe-nomenon I,'o seemed to find it dlfil-cult dlfil-cult to explain. Thtue times ho returned re-turned to bis pumping and throo times bo examined tlio trough. "I was an absorbed looUcr-on, Impatient Im-patient to ceo what would be dono. Soon a lively Capping of tho ears indicated indi-cated tho dawning1 of light. Ho went and cradled of tho tree trunk which had rolled from uudcr tho trough. I thought for a moment that ho w as going go-ing to put it In its place again. But It was not, as I boon understood, tho end which' ran over that disturbed his mind, but the end which ho found impossible im-possible to fill. Bat .111 tho trough, which ho then allowed to rest for an Instant on ono of hli hugo feet, ho rolled away the second rupporting log wth his trunk niul then set tho trough down so that It rested nt both ends on the ground. Ho returned to tho pifmp and completed his task " |