StNicholas [serial] . best. Asfast as the trees are cut down and trimmed, teamsof elephants with harness and chains are attachedto the huge logs, which are promptly draggedthrough forest paths to the nearest stream. Herethe logs await the rainy season, when little rivu-lets become roaring torrents, and float down thetimber into the great Irrawaddy itself. You will see that the elephant is a conscientiousworker, and when pulling a heavy load he willlean right forward exerting every muscle of hisimmense body, and even throwing himself on hisknees in a loyal effort to accomplish his task. 152 THE
StNicholas [serial] . best. Asfast as the trees are cut down and trimmed, teamsof elephants with harness and chains are attachedto the huge logs, which are promptly draggedthrough forest paths to the nearest stream. Herethe logs await the rainy season, when little rivu-lets become roaring torrents, and float down thetimber into the great Irrawaddy itself. You will see that the elephant is a conscientiousworker, and when pulling a heavy load he willlean right forward exerting every muscle of hisimmense body, and even throwing himself on hisknees in a loyal effort to accomplish his task. 152 THE WORKING ELEPHANTS OF INDIA [Dec, Many of the animals lose their tusks in the per-formance of their duty; for it is with forehead,trunk and tusks that they handle huge logs withtruly wonderful dexterity. In the great sawmills worried if the logs are not placed straight! Yetit is a well-known fact in Burma that this is is the same in Ceylon, where elephants are fre-quently employed on the building of reservoirs,. MANCEUVEKING A ROUGH LOG. of Mouhnein and Rangoon other immense herdsof tame elephants are kept to receive the logsfloated down from the forest, and tow themashore. The big workers then drag the logs tothe mills, and once inside the immense sheds theyadopt new tactics, rolling and piling the logs, andavoiding the machinery with rare skill. It is noteworthy that the tuskers employed inthis work use their delicate trunks far morefreely than when in a wild state. They receivethe squared logs from the mills and form theminto stacks, sometimes working singly, but occa-sionally in teams of two. It is interesting towatch a brace of tuskers tackling a massive sixty-foot log inside the mills. The mahouts declarethey talk to one another, even though no soundsbe audible. One goes to either end of the log;the tusks are put upon the ground, the trunkcurled over, and next moment the great beam isupborne upon the two pairs of tusks, and theanimals begin their march out to the st
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