Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

We all know the nursery story of the tailor who pinched the elephant’s trunk when the intelligent animal was soliciting sweets through Snip’s open casement, and how the wise beast, on returning the same route soon afterward, regaled the tailor with a shower of muddy water she had carefully sucked up from the roadside, just to show that she bore him no special ill, but that two could play at joking; but according to a note in the Hereford Times, elephants can be grateful as well as vindictive. Some weeks ago Bostock and Wombwell’s Menagerie again visited Tenbury. Our readers will remember the elephant Lizzie’s wonderful recognition of Mr. Tisley, chemist of Teme street, when on a visit to that town about two years since. The animal then went out of the procession to greet him at his shop door, remembering him as her deliverer from intense pain, causes by an attack of colic, brought on through drinking cold water when journeying to Tenbury on a previous visit. Mr. Tisley, on visiting the menagerie the other evening, was again at once seen and recognized by Lizzie, who embraced him with her trunk in such a manner as to cause some alarm to her keepers, but an affectionate hug for her preserver was all the poor creature intended.
Doubtless her remembrance of her friend will never be effaced, since this is the second time she has greeted Mr. Tisley in such a startling manner.-Land and Water.