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If an elephant wished to catch an express train he could not gallop, but he could catch the train. Thus Moti Guj was at the planter's door almost before Chihun noticed that he had left his pickets. He fell into Deesa's arms trumpeting with joy, and the man and beast wept and slobbered over each other, and handled each other from head to heel to see that no harm had befallen.
"You will be surprised, Witla," said Deesa to him one day, "how much English you can get understood by making intelligent signs." Eugene had laughed at Deesa's descriptions of his own difficulties and successes, but he found that Deesa was right. Signs went very far and they were, as a rule, thoroughly intelligible.
'A devastating sickness has fallen on my village, and all my wives are dying, yelled Deesa, really in tears this time. 'Call Chihun, who comes from Deesa's village, said the planter. Chihun, has this man a wife? 'He! said Chihun. 'No. Not a woman of our village would look at him. They'd sooner marry the elephant. Chihun snorted. Deesa wept and bellowed.
As to the inconsiderable interval, have I the gracious permission of the Heaven-born to call up Moti Guj? Permission was granted, and, in answer to Deesa's shrill yell, the lordly tusker swung out of the shade of a clump of trees where he had been squirting dust over himself till his master should return.
If an elephant wished to catch an express train he could not gallop, but he could catch the train. Thus Moti Guj was at the planter's door almost before Chihun noticed that he had left his pickets. He fell into Deesa's arms trumpeting with joy, and the man and beast wept and slobbered over each other, and handled each other from head to heel to see that no harm had befallen.
As to the inconsiderable interval, have I the gracious permission of the Heaven-born to call up Moti Guj? Permission was granted, and, in answer to Deesa's shrill yell, the lordly tusker swung out of the shade of a clump of trees where he had been squirting dust over himself till his master should return.
'A devastating sickness has fallen on my village, and all my wives are dying, yelled Deesa, really in tears this time. 'Call Chihun, who comes from Deesa's village, said the planter. 'Chihun, has this man a wife? 'He! said Chihun. 'No. Not a woman of our village would look at him. They'd sooner marry the elephant. Chihun snorted. Deesa wept and bellowed.
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