The little elephant

The little elephant

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

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Tamme (XII)

A story in which an elephant father and mother dig out a pit for a little elephant near to a <i>!goa</i> tree. The mother elephant puts the little elephant in the pit and fills the pit with earth. At sunset the elephant mother awakes and lifts the little elephant out of the pit. The two of them run down to the water and the mother puts the little elephant into the water.

1) See also <i>The little elephant (which fell into the game pit but did not die)</i>, 2) This story is found in Book XI &amp; XII-4

story

20 January 1880

Plants and animals

elephant ( the burial of the little elephant )

elephant ( and the digging of pits )

elephant ( the mother and the father dig a pit for the little elephant )

elephant ( the mother lifts the little elephant out of the pit )

elephant ( the mother lifts the little elephant out of the water )

elephant ( the mother puts the little elephant in the water )

elephant ( the little elephant 'slept' )

elephant ( the little elephant at the foot of the !goa tree )

tree ( the !goa )

burial ( of the little elephant )

burial ( and the digging of pits )

pit ( the digging of )

pit ( and the burial of the little elephant )

name ( a tree called !goa )

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