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With us, there is also a men seated on the elephant’s neck, just behind his big ears. One calls him the mahout. He’s in charge of taking care and feeding elephants. Usually, he also drives him, but today, it’s a little bit special. Because only Doudou knows the way... Doudou is seated beside the mahout to drive the elephant : « let’s go Doudou, says the elephant, point the way you came : a left kick to go to the left and a right kick to go to the right...

- It doesn’t hurt you ?

- No, answers the elephant, with my mahout, it’s a habit and he hasn’t foam legs ! »

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© JiCé SOWA & Valérie CHERY - December 2005