Chap. III.] 



THE ELEPHANT. 



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then discovered that the elephant, on seeing a jak fruit on a tree 

 somewhat beyond the reach of his trunk, had raised himself on 

 his hind legs, placing his fore feet against the stem, in order to 

 lay hold of the fruit, but unluckily for him there happened to 

 be another tree standing so close to it that the vacant space 

 between the two stems was only a few inches. During his 

 attempts to take hold of the fruit one of his legs happened to 

 get in between the two trees, where, on account of his weight 

 and his clumsy attempts to extricate himself, it got so firmly 

 wedged that he could not remove it, and in this awkward 

 position he remained for some days, till he died on the spot," 



