Reading Notes: The King's White Elephant, Part A

Notes:
  • Number of carpenters lived on a river bank near a large forest.
    • Everyday, the carpenters went in boats to the forest to cut down trees and make them into lumber.
  • One day while at work, an elephant approaches while limping on three feet.
    • He held up one foot and one of the carpenters saw it was sore and swollen.
    • The elephant layed down and the carpenters saw a big splinter in the sore of the foot.
    • Therefore, they pulled it out and cleaned it for the elephant for him to get back on his feet again.
  • After the elephant got better, he thought that the carpenters think  that he may have been useful for something.
  • The carpenters fed the elephant well all day due to helping them out with the trees.
    • The elephant helped by pulling down the trees for the carpenter to chop them down and roll the logs down to the river.
  • Somehow, the elephant had a white son?
    • The old elephant said that he will take his son to work to show how to work once the old elephant doesn't have strength in the future.
    • He wanted the young elephant to help the carpenters.
  • The old elephant told his son what happen when he needed help and then they took good care of him and feeding him well.
  • When work was done, the young elephant went to the river to play.
    • The carpenter's children played with him as well.
    • He like to pick the kids up with his trunk and set them down on a branch so that they can climb back down.
  • One day the king came down to the river and saw the beautiful white elephant working for the carpenters.
    • The king then wanted him for his own and want to pay good money for it to the carpenters.
    • Then with the last look at his playmates, the children, the elephant went with the king.
  • The king was so proud of the young elephant that he took good care of him as long as he could.
Bibliography: The King's White Elephant, by Ellen C. Babbitt.

The Elephant used to pull up trees for the carpenters, Link Text.

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