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elephant would be re-incarnated on a much 

 higher plane ; they even suggested, as if that 

 were a reward, that his spirit might be born 

 again as one of themselves, forgetting that they 

 were under the subjection of labour from birth 

 to death, while this elephant had tasted the 

 joys of independence for nearly a century. 



