Item - Almost Human

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Good News — v. 13 no. 316 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	Good News, v. 13, no. 316, May 23, 1896 (Issue)
Date:	May 23, 1896
First Sentence:	Stories of the elephant's sagacity are everywhere rife in India, and, indeed, any one who happens to have seen these creatures employed in the government contract-labor will scarcely have failed to notice numerous instances of it himself.
Last Sentence:	This incident, which was well known in Calcutta, not only showed memory, but a high order of reasoning power, for the animal, recollecting the benefit he had received from the first application, was, in spite of the pain it caused him, not only willing, but anxious, to undergo the second, in order that his other eye might be cured in like manner.