KARI, the elephant, was five months old aa mine wear cd and ould each hit back 8004 3 tipeoe ‘hen he ua auen to me t9 take care of Fa He Seema co romain that high for nearly E00 wears ‘we grew together: that & probably why | never fund out jure haw tal e was He wad ina pavllon under a thatched root which rested on thick tree stuaps 50 that Ie woul not fall ‘when Kat bumped again the poles ashe moved about inthe morning for his bath || He‘ouit Te down on the sand bank Foran hour (3 I rtbeal hi with the clean sand of the river ‘After that be would i inthe water fora ong tie ‘On coming out his sin would be shining lice sony and he would squeal with pleasure z 125 Urubbed water down fis ackBut | saw his back rise above the water [= ‘and the moment he caught my eye, he began to trumpet and struggle up to the chore. ‘Then, still trumpeting, he pushed me into the water and, 45 | fell into the stream, saw a boy lying flat on the bottom of the river. He had rot altogether touched bottom but was somewhat afloat.(As my body rose above the water, flea lasso around wy eck ‘This righted we; thought Some water animal was ging to swallow ms Nie ‘then | heard Kari squealing, Sha Von feat ht tank abut my nee as pulled both chore. Ss = Despite bring a iesaver, Kari was ale Uke «baby. ead €9 be trained #9 be good find you di not tell hm be he wae naughty, he wasup to more mischief then ever For instance, ane day, sornebody gave ina some bananas t0 eat i. ‘And vary soon, he developed a grea love Tor ripe bananaNext day, while | was sitting in the dining-roown, wondering whether | should take some fruit From the table without my parents’ permission @ long, black thing, very much like a snake, suddenly came through the window and disappeared with all the bananas. [was very much Frightened because | had never seen snakes eat bananas and | thought it must be a terrible snake that would eneak in and take Fruit. | crept out of the room and with great fear in say heart ran out of the house, feeling sure that the snake would cone back into the house eat all the frit, and kill all of us.‘As I went out, | save Kav’s back disappearing in the direction of the pavilion and | was so frightened that | wanted his company to cheer me up. | Tran after him into the pavilion and I found hiv there eating bananas. 1 stood stil in astonishment; the bananas were lying strewn all around him. He stretched out his trunk and reached for one far away from where he wee standing. “That instant the trunk looked like a black snake, and I realised that Kari was the thigh . a =pulled hin out by the ear and joyously showed my parents that had eaten all the Fruit these many weeks. Then I scolded hina, for elephants understand words as well as children. He knew that we were all angry with him, even the servants. His pride was so injured that he never stole another thing from the dining-room that i¢ was Kari and not 1 Next time 1 see you stealing Fruit, you will be whipped, you'd better get that right! ‘And From then on. if anybody gave hirw any frait, Sed fe atways scueaied, & as if to thank them.An elephant is willing to be punished for having done wrong, but F you punish him without any reason, he will remenber it and pay you back in your own coin. ‘Aw elephant vaust be taught when to sit down, when to walk, when to go fast, and when to go slow. You teach him these things as you teach a child. If you say ‘Dhat’ and pull hin by the ear. he will gradually learn to sit down. Similarly, if you say “Mal” and pull his trunk forward, he will gradually learn that it is the signal to walk. Kari learned ‘Mali after three lessons, but it took him three weeks to learn ‘Dhat’ He was no goed at sitting down. And do you know why an elephant should be taught to sit down? Because he grows taller and taller thar you whe take care of him, 20 that when he ie two or three years old, you can only reack his back with a ladder. Te a. | It is, therefore, better to teach him to sit down by saying ‘Dhat’ so that you can climb upon his back, for whe would want to carry & ladder around all the time?A “The most difficult thing to teach an elephant is the master call; [Sm he generally takes five years to learn it properly. ne gnarl ce Fe gears fam spe as if a snake and a tiger were fighting each other, ‘and you have to make that kind of noise in his ear. And do you know wet you expect an elephant to do when you give him the master call? you ae ost inthe jung and there is no way out, and everything is black except the stars abeve, stay very [ong anywhere.The only thing to do then