Trunk and Disorderly

When the Duke of Wellington was serving in India, one of his soldiers managed to maroon himself on an island in the middle of a river. As the man was too drunk to clamber onto the elephant sent by Wellesley, the patient creature hoisted him up with his trunk and, ignoring his wild struggles, deposited him on his own back.

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