Festival Of The Tooth #2

Tooth-2, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr. Here is how Buck described The Bearer of the Tooth: “And then I saw The Bearer, far off, but looming up above the mass like a gray mountain in a range of hills . . . I had never dreamed an elephant could be so big. His feet squdged down on the pavement like soft pile drivers. His trunk-yards of it-swayed like a great tree in the wind as he walked. His tusks, gleaming white with bands of gold, curved out ahead like great crescent moons of ivory. And he cast a shadow that darkened the bazaars as he passed . . . The parade went on, a rainbow phantasm of gorgeous color, but its climax was over for me. I had seen the greatest elephant in the world-there was nothing left.”