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A Libeled Elephant. 



It is a well-known legend that elephants are blind. I have not found them so. 

 They do plod along as though half asleep much of the time; but this. I believe, is because 

 they are so powerful, are secure from death at the claws of other beasts, and have 

 grown careless with the centuries. When attacked by man they are as wide awake as 

 anything that roams forest or jungle. 



