| Show trow itow nn all woo won a in one of the battles between the Mahr attas and the moguls during the eighteenth ten century Lury before brit alas ains indian empire was established the marratta Mah ratta state elephant bearing the standard was told by his mahout to stand still just as the order was given tho the mahout was killed As the battle went on the Mahr attas fell back before the moguls and would have lost the day but seeing the state elephant still standing immovable with the standard still flying they rallied again and again and won the fight when it was over the elephant refused to move from tile the spot remembering tile the command of 0 his drad dead mahout at last some one recollected that the mahout had occasionally put the elephant in charge of his little son so the child was sent for but the village was a day and a halts journey so that three days elapsed before the boy arrived during those three days the animal stood there on the battlefield and food had to be brought when the child came on the morning of 0 the third day the elephant knew him directly and remembering that the mahout had sometimes delegated his authority to the child the wise and faithful animal obeyed the boys order and walked quietly away with him |
