Tyke the elephant buried12/8/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() Thoroughly enlightened, detached yet compassionate, the elephants are impersonating an ordinary family, though for the them steamer trunks, the wicker hampers, the matching valises, the plush seats steeped in coal smoke, the net hammock bulging with still other impediments-all these barricades against the flames and rapids beyond have paled into mere pencil sketches on transparent rice paper through which the elephants gaze unblinkingly, gay and courageous, at the devouring fire and water of transience. They have assumed an expression of mild curiosity for want of any more avid hankering after adventure. The infinite sadness of the elephants in their railway coach! They're arrayed in old-fashioned clothes and waiting with dignity at the end of the book for the beginning of yet another holiday. They have assumed an expression of mild curiosity for want of any more avid hankering after A tale of a benign elephant family wise to the point of sadness, reconciled to the humiliations of long life but gifted with a naive delight in travel-in the pranks, say, of their foreign host and friend, a monkey. ![]() A tale of a benign elephant family wise to the point of sadness, reconciled to the humiliations of long life but gifted with a naive delight in travel-in the pranks, say, of their foreign host and friend, a monkey. ![]()
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