The White Elephant

About this book

How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse? Run-Run a young elephant trainer discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boys punishment? The gift of an elephant white as a cloud. From that moment forward the curse reveals itself. According to tradition so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day and scrub it clean and brush its pom-pom of a tail and wash behind its ears and above all keep it from doing any work. Oh if only Run-Run could make the magnificent white elephant disappear! Clever as a magician he doesbut the curse has tricks of its own for Run-Run.