The Malicious Monocle

Zebu tried to relax while he read his copy of the Chennai Times, but couldn’t. The headlines were screaming the same news that Sgt. Bullgod had recently called out in the village square. The headline’s article was accompanied by an illustration showing Governor Hedgehog meeting with the Raja in the garden of the Governor’s Palace. The caption under the illustration read, “Nobly gracious, Raja Elephant bows before Her Royal Majesty’s Governor, Brigadier General Hedgehog.”

Zebu studied the illustration of Elephant. He couldn’t be sure, but the ears in the picture looked bigger than Elephant’s ears really were. This was only a newspaper illustration of course and so he couldn’t be sure. Perhaps the Chennai Times had a new illustrator who simply drew ears bigger than they were in reality.

The final sentence of the article announcing the crowning of Raja promised a serial about Elephant in the days leading up to his coronation.