Week 13 Reading Notes Part 2

 The King's White Elephant

  • Carpenters lived on a river bank near a forest
  • They noticed a wounded elephant
  • They tended to the elephant, and he was so grateful that he helped the carpenters with their work
  • He would bring them tree trunks, fetch their tools, move logs into the river and more
  • As the elephant grew older, he started bringing his son with him to show him the ways of the work
  • One day the king spotted the beautiful white elephant
  • The king paid the carpenters a lot of money to keep the white elephant for his own

                                                                        Wikimedia: White Elephant 

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