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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 207

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n throwing himself on hisknees in a loyal effort to accomplish his task. 152 THE WORKING ELEPHANTS OF INDIA [Dec, Many of the animals lose their tusks in the per-formance of their duty; for it is with forehead,trunk and tusks that they handle huge logs withtruly wonderful dexterity. In the great… … MANCEUVEKING A ROUGH LOG. of Mouhnein and Rangoon other immense herdsof tame elephants are kept to receive the logsfloated down from the forest, and tow themashore. The big workers then drag the logs tothe mills, and once inside the immense sheds theyadopt new tactics, rolling and piling the logs,…

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