Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The following story has a “moral” which those who have watched the progress of the recent session of the General Assembly, as regards railway legislation may possibly appreciate.
A very curious railroad accident happened recently in India. A large elephant, seeing the red light and smoke, concluded the noisy locomotive was an enemy to be summarily demolished. He accordingly placed himself on the track, and met the strange creature head on, with trunk and tusks. The result was a sick elephant, eleven cars capsized and one man killed.