![]() ![]() The elders consider it to be a customary tradition, handed down through the years as their tusks appear, but Ruby doesn’t like it even if it is a ceremony celebrating a rite of passage. Ruby isn’t happy being called a ’Tusky’, though, and would prefer to be just Ruby. This is the story of a young elephant, the littlest elephant as this story begins, a ’Tusky’ by the name of Ruby. ![]() ’I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange…There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.’ - Peter Matthiessen ’Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.’ - John Dunne ’If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people, only more so.’ - Pierre Corneille ![]()
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