Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — The Elephant as a Playfellow. [ARTICLE]

The Elephant as a Playfellow.

A man who has traveled In India s great deal says that an elephant Is a better playfellow for a boy than a dog. The native boys make the elephants take them In swimming. They climb on the elephant's back and ride ha triumph to the beat swimming hols. The elephant walks Into deep water and heepe right oo walking until there's ■•thing to be seen of him eroept his trunk and a good, level ltf&nd of back. The boy stands on the Island and yells Hke—well, Just about like a good, healthy American boy, and he dives oft the Island, and the elephant grabs him with his trunk and puts him up onto “dry land,” and answers his yell with a ery that’s half snort and half whoop, tnd altogether he gives that boy Just as good a time “In swimming" os If he had lived In America and never dreamed of using an elephant’s back for a spring board. Queer country, India. Inn'* I*s