54 ‘Tula Oolah.

It was perfectly hard and smooth and looked like
burnished brass. They tried to lift it, but found —
it so heavy that it was utterly impossible for them
to move it. Mr. Newcombe then hurried away,
and soon returned with a chemist who examined
carefully what was in the tub, and pronounced it
to be pure gold /

They were all, of course, very, very much sur-
prised, except, indeed, Mr. Newcombe.

‘‘T suspected this might be gold,” he said, “and
I will tell you why. I have, as I told you, lived
among the people in the southeastern part of
northwestern Hindoostan, the country from which
this elephant probably originally came. It is a
mountainous region, and the people live isolated
lives. They have many interesting legends which
have been handed down from father to son, and
among them one that I think may apply to this
case.’ Then Mr. Newcombe translated the legend
for them :
“Tf you find an elephant, made of brass,
An elephant small and old—

Through ‘ Oolah ’—the water—allow him to pass
And the Oolah shall turn to gold /