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Elephants Laying Timbers

the centre of the roof, to which the ascent his strength was exhausted, and he was by a ladder. retired. The next in size and strength On the approach of the Elephants, the then advanced, and exhausted his exertwo astonished spectators clambered up tions, with no better success. A third into a lofty banyan tree, in order to escape then came forward, and applying those mischief.

They were so completely tremendous levers with which his jaws screened by the foliage of the tree, that were armed, and which he wielded with they could not be perceived by the Ele- such prodigious might, he at length sucphants, though they could see very well ceeded in dislodging a brick. An opening what was going on below. Thick brick once made, other Elephants advanced, walls were obstacles which seemed at when an entrance was soon obtained sufficiently large to admit them. As the twenty, had made a full meal. By this whole herd could not be accommodated at time a shrill sound was heard from one once, they divided into small bodies of of the Elephants, which was readily three or four. When they had taken understood, and those that were still in their fill, they retired, and their places the building immediately rushed out, were immediately supplied by the next in joined their companions and escaped with waiting, until the whole herd, upwards of all possible speed.