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Quotation from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

“no man has ever seen the elephants dance”

Rudyard Kipling (spoken by Narrator)

The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants (Project Gutenberg #236)

Portrait of Rudyard Kipling

Explaining why the hunters laugh when Petersen Sahib tells Little Toomai he may enter the Keddahs once he has seen the elephants dance.

Citation: "no man has ever seen the elephants dance" — Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants (Project Gutenberg #236). (id the-jungle-book-q7)

Portrait: JunglebookCover, Illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, Public domain.

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