The elephant and the tragopan

They talked for house and at close at last elephant arose,and with a modest trumpet,call drew the attention of them all: 

" O Beasts of bingle gathered round, though in our search for common ground Would not dream of unanimity Hope our views may reach proximity. I speak to you as one whose clan Has served and therefore studies man . 

He is creature mild and vicious, practical minded and capricious, Loving and brutal same and mad the good as puzzling as the bad. The sticky centre of this mess Is na uneasy selfihness.

He rips our flesh and tears our skin fot cloth .without, for food within.The leopard ,s spots àre his to wear . Our ivory unknots his hair .