EXTINCT ANIMALS 



The elephant pulled, and the crocodile held 

 firm, and the result was the stretching of the 

 elephant's nose till it became a trunk. This 

 story was not told to Mr. Rudyard Kipling by 

 the boy MowgU of the Jungle Book, who I feel 

 sure must have heard from the elephants the 



Fig. 8-1. — Drawing of the head of the African Elephant 

 with up-Ufted trunk. 



history as I have given it unless, as is not un- 

 likely, they have forgotten all about the way in 

 which their trunks grew, and would reject, as 

 most men and women do, the notion that they 

 have been derived by slow change in long ages 

 of time from other and more simple animals. 



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