Many years ago, it is said, that elephants had small trunks with stubbed noses. One year it did not rain for many mouths. The ponds and lakes began to dry up, and the streams hadvery little water. All the animals in the forest were very thirsty, and desperately searching for a source ofwater. A river used to flow notvery far away from the forest, and an elephant decided to go there in search of water.