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A reluctant elephant story

Answer 1

A VERY GOOD MORNING


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A RELUCTANT ELEPHANT STORY

Where is Kesavan?" yelled the head priest as the time to take the idols around the praharas was nearing. There was no sign of the bedecked pachyderm at the tower gate.

The mahout came running to say the animal was off-colour since it had woken up in the morning. It would not come to the nearby pond for the ritual bath; it refused any food offered; it would not allow cloth be thrown over it. The mahout told the priest that he could not understand his ward's petulance. He could not get the elephant ready for the day's procession.

The mahout returned to the elephant shed and found Kesavan still sulking. What a contrast to the normal routine. Every day, the elephant would be up on its feet with a mere prod from the mahout. It would then walk to the pond and allow the mahout to throw buckets of water over it and scrub its sides. Back at the shed, it would eat sugarcane, jaggery and fruits. Then the mahout would apply vibhuti and sandal paste on its forehead and trunk. Then it would kneel and allow the cloth to thrown over it and a mount placed on its back. Once ready, it would walk to the temple gopuram and wait with the mahout till the priests' call came.

People visiting the temple would offer it bananas and coconut, which it would eat with relish. Some, who wanted to be blessed, would offer it coins as it touched their heads lightly with its trunk. The money would be handed over to the mahout. When it was time for the procession, it would kneel so that the idol would be placed on the mount. Then it would walk around the compound led by the temple musicians and followed by the jostling crowd.

This was the daily regimen but today, Kesavan was in no mood to follow it.

The mahout, unhappy that the morning's procession did not happen, went home for breakfast. There he found Gopu, his son, still playing. He asked his wife why Gopu had not gone to school. She explained that Gopu, just back from a holiday in Mumbai, needed a little break before he could resume his normal routine. She did not force him because she was confident that Gopu, always a good student, would go back to his schedule on his own.

The mahout suddenly understood why Kesavan had been so recalcitrant that morning. It had just come back from a month-long camp at Mudumalai, where it would have had a great time. Vast open spaces to wander in, unfettered by thronging humans, the call of the wild, flowing rivers where one was not at the mercy of a drying pond and a mahout, plentiful supply of green fodder ...

Kesavan, like Gopu, probably needed a period of adjustment before it resumed its daily 





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Answer 2

My dear elephants have big trunks and can kill with the a stomp to the face there trunks are used to suck up things and can be very dangerous but if there they wines they're fine