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THE ELEPHANT. 
enclosure with a pail or a watering-pot, show- 
ing the same readiness to perform any kind of 
labour as the elephants in the East. Her 
reward was a carrot and some water ; but 
before she satisfied her thirst by a copious 
draught, she would exhibit her ingenuity in 
emptying the contents of a soda-water bottle, 
which was tightly corked. Pressing the small 
bottle against the ground with her enormous 
foot, so as to hold it securely at an angle of 
about forty-five degrees, she gradually twisted 
out the cork with her trunk, although it was 
very little above the edge of the neck ; then, 
without altering the position, she turned her 
trunk round the bottle, so that she might re- 
verse it, and thus empty the water into th® 
extremity of the proboscis. This she accorU' 
plished without spilling a drop ; and she de- 
livered the empty bottle to her keeper before 
she attempted to discharge the contents of th® 
trunk into her mouth. She performed anO' 
