The Wonders of the Jungle, Book One

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he water and have a bath and a swim. That is, all the grown-up eleph

en? Because even when the Mammas go into the water they keep their eyes on the

ater. Besides, the babies themselves can smell the tiger when he is coming; then they call out to their Mammas by m

to the water, without any worry. And at

air over his head and squirts the water out, and it falls in a shower all over his body. You can see

Why? Because they have to get busy and bathe their little children. They call

ve a language of their own. They do not speak exactly as we do, but make di

elephant has learned to know exactly what that means. And if the Mamma elephant wants to s

iving himself

ves. Of course they cannot say many things, as

y of our children often hate to be bathed; and the elephant children are just the

Obeys Mamma-o

d by the bank, the baby comes at once, even though it hates to be bathed. The b

ank it? Of course she does-like all Mammas! The

r gets spanked more than once in its life-and that is e

The elephant child even obeys the very minute it is told to do anything; in fact, sometimes in the jungle

Among men folks, if a child runs out into the street, and an auto or a street car comes suddenly, then if the child will not obey its Mamma at once and d

ul story about a boy elephant who escaped a gr

le. In the elephant herd it is just the same; a bad little elephant grows up to be a bad big elephant; it is then called a rogue. In another book I shall tell you how the President of the herd orde

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hed. It comes to the edge of the bank, and stands facing its Mamma. Then the Mamma fills he

a squirts the water, till all the mud and dust of the jungle is washed away from the baby's body.

do to them? She must

loat in the water quite easily, and they have only to work their legs to move a

before, the elephant's trunk is its nose-that is, the elephant has to breathe through the trunk. So of course, if in t

each her child how to swim properly. An

ant, but also is useful as a hand; the elephant can hold a lot of things

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she holds up the child in the water, so that the little elephant has only to think of curling up the tip of its own little t

old up the tip of its trunk out of the water at the same time;

nothing, as she is already using her own trun

e of that. When he sees that the Mamma is teaching the little elephant how to swim, he always comes near t

quickly, and with one upward stroke of his own trunk he lifts up the little elephant's

is, to kick out with its legs so as to move along, and also to hold

to swim a very long way. Sometimes a whole herd of elephants has to swim across a very wide river. Then the Mamma

r swimming halfway

ting tired!" cri

back, darling!"

her child sits on her back. In that way she swims along, and car

Carrying her Chi