how the baby elephants got to africa

Once up on a time there was a city full of tall buildings. The buildings were built by elephants. Each elephant had a building for itself. The buildings were made of brick and the brick was given to the elephants by the clouds who carried the bricks from the riverbank. Each morning the elephant would build on top of the building and then move on top of the newly laid bricks and thus the buildings grew as the elephants grew.

The clouds helped the buildings grow because then the city would stop the air which would blow the clouds away. All the clouds helped the elephants but one of them was an evil cloud. He would give the elephants hollowed brick, so the elephants did not know when they build with the hollowed brick.

Many years later the buildings became weak and started to crumble because the elephants were so heavy. As one fell, it affected the other and soon each and every building had crumbled to the ground. The elephants were very sad and they thought about what to do. They decided to go into the jungles and the grasslands, but they did not know where the jungles were.

So they asked the clouds where the jungles and the grasslands were and the clouds replied that they were far away, beyond the great ocean, in the land called Africa. The elephants asked the clouds how to go there, the clouds said that the elephants should talk to the whales who would carry them across the ocean. So the elephants walked for many days and many months till they reached the shore. There they met the whales who were in the ocean.

The elephants told the whales that they wanted to go to Africa and the whales should carry them there, in return the elephants would give the whales the skill to build buildings. The whales replied that they did not need any buildings and went away.

The elephants asked the clouds again, how they could go to Africa. The clouds said that only the whales were big enough to carry elephants, but if the elephants wanted, the clouds could carry the elephant children over the ocean into the lands of Africa.

The elephants were very sad but they agreed. And the clouds summoned more clouds and they carried the elephant children over the cliff where they stood and carried them into the land of Africa.