The next morning we got up early to shop for another present and we took the elephant back home, where it now sits on a bookcase. We didn't tell the friend about it until years later.

Here's a story you might enjoy. A good friend of my fellow was getting married on Vancouver Island, so we planned to go. So what to bring, that we can lug in our suitcases? After a lot of thought, fellow remembered something about elephants. He though friend loved elephants! So we bought a really nice, and expensive, china elephant, trunk up, of course, for luck. So we arrived to the island well before everyone else was expected for the...