00:00Ivor the engine. There he is, look, standing by the gasworks at Grumbly. Oh yes, there's an elephant in there, isn't there?
00:17Joan's esteem was going to fetch the vet. It's one of the front feet, Miss Ludgrove.
00:23Come on now, elephant, show us your bad foot. Come on, up.
00:29No, not that one, silly, the one with the cut on it. That's right.
00:35Oh yes, nasty cut you've got. Gone a bit septic too. I'll give you some pills for that. I'd better listen to her chest as well, Mr. Jones.
00:46Oh yes, sit up now, elephant. Let the lady listen to your chest. Up you come, up.
00:54Hmm. You're good with elephants, Mr. Jones. Can you make it say ninety-nine?
00:59Oh, don't be daft, Miss Ludgrove. It's an elephant.
01:02Just my joke, Mr. Jones. Hmm. Hmm. Oh, her chest is lovely. You have to be careful with elephants, you know. Get pneumonia very easily.
01:16Now keep her warm and dry and bathe her foot in hot water and disinfectant twice a day. Hot water, as hot as she can stand, mind.
01:24Oh, and the pills. Let's have a look. Oh, she's about four tons, I should say. Well, that'll be sixteen of these pills every four hours. All right?
01:36Oh, thank you, Miss Ludgrove. What do we owe you? Oh, no, no, no. It's on the house. Pleasure to meet a well-bred elephant. Don't forget, though, sixteen every four hours.
01:48Sixteen every four hours.
01:51Um, Jones? Yes, Evan Evans? Are you going to give them to her? Yes. How? Oh, well. Well, she's a well-bred elephant, like the lady said. Pass me that tin plate.
02:08There we are. Now then, elephant, would you care to take sixteen of these pills? They are to do you good. Come on, now. Come on.
02:19Hardly what you would call good manners, that? Oh, we'll get them into her somehow. You reckon we will?
02:30They didn't. They tried everything. They buried the pills in pieces of bread, but then she wouldn't eat the bread.
02:37They hid the pills in bunches of leaves, but she shook them out. They even fetched a cardboard tube and blew them into her mouth.
02:44But the elephant blew first. Oh, you're a bad elephant.
02:48Well, then they tried to bathe her foot. Fetched a big tin bath, kettles of hot water, disinfectant, a huge curtain for a towel.
02:59Now, come on, elephant. You must bathe your foot. It will make it feel better.
03:04Come on. Lift it up. That's right. There's a good elephant. And put it in the nice hot water.
03:17Perhaps it was a bit hot for our joints back. Oh, I don't know about you, Evan Evans. I'm finished with elephants.
03:27Come on. Let's go and take Mr. Brangwen back his perishable pigeons.
03:30Perhaps he knows how to handle elephants. Anyway, he'll be waiting for the pigeons.
03:35Oh, you are in a predicament to be sure. Now, now then let me think. I think I've got something that might be of help.
03:55Oh, now, just a moment. I'll fetch it. Yeah, there we are. Here it is, gentlemen. How about that?
04:05Oh, well, thank you very much, Mr. Brangwen. What is it?
04:08I bought it in Bangalore 40 years ago. Just as a souvenir, you know.
04:15Quite so, Mr. Brangwen. But, um, what is it?
04:19It's a boot, man. An elephant's boot. You could bandage your foot and she could wear the boot on top.
04:26Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, I suppose we could. If she lets us.
04:31Well, you take it along and try. I'm glad to be rid of it, really.
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