The Hunter

One day in Africa, a small girl goes out with her grandfather to collect honey. 'Perhaps we will see elephants, ' she says as they cross the river. 'You'll be lucky' the old man replies. 'They aren't many left now, since the hunters came, ' 'Hunters!' cries Jemina, 'I'm going to be a hunter!' Jemina spends the rest of the day playing hunters in the hot, dry bush, until she is lost and discovers a baby elephant crying out for its dead mother. As she tries to help the orphaned creature, Jemina comes to understand that hunting is not noble or exciting but cruel and futile.