A man was on holiday in Kenya . While he  was walking through the

bush, he came across an elephant  standing with one leg raised in the air.

The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very

carefully.

He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot.  There was a

large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of  the foot.

As carefully and as gently as he  could he removed the thorn and ></SCRIPT>

the elephant gingerly put  down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man

and with a rather stern look on its face, stared at him. For a good ten

minutes the man stood frozen -- thinking of  nothing else but being trampled.

Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.

For years after, the man remembered  the elephant and the events

of that day.

One day the man was walking through the zoo with his son. As

they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked

over to where they are standing at the rail. It stared at him and the man ></SCRIPT>

couldn't help wondering  if this was the same elephant.

After a  while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare

at him.

The man summoned up his courage,  climbed over the railing and

made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and

stared back in wonder.

Suddenly the elephant  trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk

around one of the man's legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing,

killing him.

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Probably wasn't the same elephant.