Crowley County Combined Library

Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.

In this version of "The blind men and the elephant", basedon a poem by Rm, Persian villagers try to figure out what strange animal in a dark barn has arrived from India.

An orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an old lady who gives him everything he wants, but eventually returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the elephants.

When Chandra, the official bather of the Rajah's elephants, saves them from serious illness, she exacts from the Rajah a reward more costly than he realizes.

The gods take away the elephants' wings when they are careless with their flying and give the wings to the peacocks and banana trees.