The Kind-hearted
She-elephant
Source: George. T. Lanigan,
1910, in The World’s Wit and Humor,
Volume IV.
A kind-hearted She-Elephant, while walking through the Jungle where the
Spicy Breezes blow soft o-er Ceylon’s Isle, heedlessly
set foot upon a Partridge, which she crushed to death within a few inches of
the Nest containing its Callow Brood. “Poor little things!” said the generous
Mammoth. “I have been a Mother myself, and my affection shall atone for the
Fatal Consequences of my neglect.” So saying, she sat down upon the Orphaned
Birds.
Moral. The above Teaches us What Home is
Without a Mother; also, that it is not every Person who should be entrusted
with Care of an Orphan Asylum.