The Stolen White Elephant

THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT

by Mark Twain

[Left out of A Tramp Abroad, because it was feared that some of the particulars had been exaggerated, and that others were not true. Before these suspicions had been proven groundless, the book had gone to press. --M. T.]

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The following curious history was related to me by a chance railway acquaintance. He was a gentleman mo...