When you sit on top of an elephant, you can feel its muscles move. It feels like springs going up and down on your hips when the elephant walks. The skin felt like a dry rubber hose. The ears felt like a rubber tire.
To make the elephant move left, right, or straight, the driver would talk to it in Thai. The elephant would obey, but sometimes he wouldn’t.
Right when we were approaching the river, the elephant got off the path. He went to a tree, and rubbed against it, to scratch its itch. When the driver saw the elephant rubbing against the tree, he went over to the elephant and pushed him to the side. Then he started scratching where the elephant’s itch was!
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