I will never forget the time charlie and i bought nine of the finest elephant’s money could buy, well sir we were forced to buy these elephant’s, the circus people were going broke so charlie and i bought them well sir if didn’t those elephant’s would starve to death. Well sir we began training them charlie was quite good at training and after a year charlie and i had taught them to do more tricks, charlie peppers and i worked a lot of hours and charlie and i would make a lot of money when the new owners could see all of the new tricks charlie and i taught them to do. We going to make a profit of thirty thousand dollars but those damn ungrateful elephant’s would make sure that we won’t make a dime. Well sir we going to get our check but charlie and me wanted them to see this one thing more that we taught them when would walk into the new place they would be staying,, all nine elephant’s would walk in the gate holding each others tail and after they entered charlie and i would get our money. We called every one to see them, well as they were going in this gate the elephants were taught to hold each other’s tail well sir we proudly watched them go through the gate when suddenly the last elephant in line tripped and ripped eight asses off the ones in the front. Well sir we lost a lot of money.