passed to the care of his Papa. In
feeding through the jungle, when all the elephants march and eat from
tree to tree, Salar walked with his Papa, and began to learn lessons
from him. And his Papa's way of teaching him was quite different from
that of his Mamma, and often very funny!

_How Elephants Walk under Water_

The first thing he taught was at the stream at midnight. By this time
Salar could swim quite well; so he was enjoying himself with the
grown-ups. But his Papa kept watching him with the corner of his eye.
Little by little he drew nearer and nearer to Salar, and waited till
the youngster came to a part where the water was not at all deep. Then
suddenly his Papa gave Salar a butt with his head. Down went Salar
under the water, snorting and spluttering and hollering.

"Hold up your trunk, you simp!" cried his Papa.

But Salar was too frightened to remember to hold up his trunk; so his
Papa caught Salar's trunk in his own and hoisted it clear out of the
water. Then what was Salar's joy and surprise to find that he could
breathe quite well, though his feet were actually touching the bottom
of the stream. Of course he kicked out, and tried to get up to the top
of the water again. But--

"Stay there!" cried his Papa, giving him another butt, though still
holding the youngster's trunk carefully out of the water.

Then Salar lost all fear of the water; he was not a bit afraid of
being ducked, so long as the tip of his trunk was out of the water. So
he learned to do a wonderful thing--he learned to remain completely
under the water, so that his feet were actually resting on the bottom
of the stream, with only the tip of his trunk out of the water. No
other animal can do that.

And the most astonishing thing about it is that the elephants have
taught themselves to do that trick; so that _a whole herd of
elephants can walk into a stream in time of danger, and disappear
from sight_, the smaller ones standing in the shallow parts, and the
full-grown ones standing in the deeper parts.

I have known of lots of hunters, who were chasing a herd of elephants
and who saw the elephants run ahead toward a river, to find to their
surprise, on reaching the river, that the whole herd had disappeared
as if by magic. They saw nothing, and did not dream that the little
things floating here and there, no bigger than your fist, could mean
anything. But of course they were the tips of the trunks of the
elephants hidden unde