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.