. Harper's young people . 624 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME AX ELEPHANT RA/AR. BY GEORGE FOLSOM. ALTHOUGH many of our yonug readers, no doubt, have seenor heard ol this peculiar structure, to the it, willbe a novelty. The Elephant. is situated al Se\. and is visited daily by large numbersof excursionists and those who live on the As youlook from the window of the car, when within three hundredyards of the is hard to believe that the object isnot a real live animal. When yon get closer, however, the mech-anism becomes apparent, and certain sharp c
. Harper's young people . 624 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME AX ELEPHANT RA/AR. BY GEORGE FOLSOM. ALTHOUGH many of our yonug readers, no doubt, have seenor heard ol this peculiar structure, to the it, willbe a novelty. The Elephant. is situated al Se\. and is visited daily by large numbersof excursionists and those who live on the As youlook from the window of the car, when within three hundredyards of the is hard to believe that the object isnot a real live animal. When yon get closer, however, the mech-anism becomes apparent, and certain sharp corners in the limbsand toes reveal the deception. The body of the Elephant is :!8 feet long anil s-i feet in cir-cumference ; the head is 2ti feet long ; the- legs are 22 feet long :the ears are 17 feet long, 10 feet wide, and each weighs 2000pounds; the tail is 2(i feet long: the trunk is 36 feet long; thetusks are 22 feet long; and the eyes are 18 inches in diameter,and are made of glass. The entrance to this curious
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