In Training for Work 



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tethering chain from the hind-leg, and it was 

 only when he had earned a name for docility 

 that these restrictions were removed, and he 

 found his limbs free once more, though still, on 

 either side, a tame elephant accompanied him 

 for fear of a sudden outbreak of fury. 



And so at last he was ready for work, and 

 was sold into slavery to the first comer who 

 could command his price : his only safeguards 

 against cruel treatment being the capital in- 

 vested in his purchase, and the fear of his 

 vengeance should his attendants purposely 

 annoy him. 



First, then, he was», called upon to work his 

 own passage from the forest to the timber yard, 

 where ultimately he was to be employed in mov- 

 ing" and arranging the heaviest logs ; and this 

 trip of some five hundred miles took nearly two 

 years to complete. 

 He would be har- 

 nessed to a log, and 

 by brute strength 

 drag it through the 

 soft soil to the banks 



