Date:  Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:38:43 CDT

From:  Randy Roberts <robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EXT.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: see the elephant



   Sorry to chime in so late on this topic and my apologies if someone

   has already noted that an article on the phrase "to see the elephant"

   appeared in The Pacific Historian, volume 12, no. 1, Winter 1968,

   pages 23-29. One of the key sources in the article is Barrere and

   Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant.



   Randy Roberts

   U of Missouri

   robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ext.missouri.edu