Elephant

Author: Dr Roger Gibson

The lion wakes up one fine morning intent on showing the other animals who’s boss.

“Hey you!” he roars at some zebra. “Who’s the King of the Beasts?”

“You are, Bwana Lion!” they reply.

“And you - you giraffes, you gnu, all you gazelles and warthogs there,” he roars. “Who’s the King of the Beasts?”

“You are, Great Bwana Lion,” they duly reply.

The lion then says to an elephant: “Who is the almighty King of All the Beasts?”

                                        The elephant picks him up with his trunk, whips the lion to and fro in a thorn tree, and throws him thirty metres into the sky. The lion hits the ground in bad shape.

                                “All right, all right,” says the lion. “Just because you don’t know the answer, there’s no need to get nasty.”