Bathing the Elephants

In the afternoon the elephants go down to the river to have their bath.

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Some of them like it.

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They are very cooperative and go down in the water so their mahouts can splash water on them.

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Others refuse to get in so we have to throw buckets of water at them.

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It takes a lot of buckets to wash an elephant.

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And some places are really hard to reach.

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The least pleasant part is when it starts to rain.

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The elephants don’t mind the rain though.

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