Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

An African hunter once found a large crocodile hanging in the fork of a tree about ten feet from the ground. As the place was fully half a mile from any water, it was difficult to account for the crocodile’s strange position. When questioned upon the subject the natives explained that it was put there by an elephant. It seems that when the elephants wade into the lake to bathe the crocodiles are in the habit of worrying them and biting their legs. Sometimes when an elephant is annoyed beyond endurance it picks up its tormentor in its trunk, places it among the branches of a tree and leaves it there.