Per 
THE STONE ELEPHANT
BE
AMAZED!
FROM
THE
MUGGY
HEART
OF
SOUTH-EAST
ASIA!
WILL
IT
BRING
YOU
PLEASURE?
OR
COMPLETE
CHAOS?
ONLY GOD
KNOWS!
COME TO FIND OUT!
The following is a page from a publication entitled To the Circus Born: Herman Fuller's Menagerie of Freaks. The identities of neither publisher nor author have been established, and scattered pages have been found inserted into Circus-themed books in libraries across the world. The person or persons behind this dissemination are unknown.
The Stone Elephant
This act was, risky to say the least. This little trinket would disappear, and then come back with something twice its size!
I still do remember that long month. I have no idea why, but Herman went on a trip, a trip to Asia. He stumbled upon a shop, where he found this. It was sitting on a shelf, next to a glock. A glock! He asked the shopkeeper about it, and the shopkeeper told him everything. I don't know why, he could have said it was his gun. Herman bought it and brought it back home. He said on the first day back, "Meet your new act!". I was very confused. A little trinket like that? Then he told all of us what it could do. Until it was showtime, this thing would randomly disappear and bring something back with it. Most of the time it brought back harmless objects, like candy, or little toys. Sometimes it would spawn stuff that… Let's just say that we were absolutely not fit to have it in our possession. We all hid the dangerous thing that came from this so that Fuller wouldn't get any ideas.
In short, It was a big hit. Herman would do an intro, and he just let the stone elephant do its thing. It would go away, then come back with a treat for a kid. I mean, Fuller forced the parents of the kids to pay up, for an object that wasn't even his afterwords, no matter how fucked up the object itself was. Even after that thing spawned a thing of mary jane, he still charged the kid. Even after the kid's parents persistently refused. I had fun hitting that after they left. Even so, this little stone elephant overshadowed all of our acts. It even took up some time-space of old 'Al's happy clown sad clown act. He even took his own life after Herman completely cut him out. That bastard said Al had nothing to live for anyway. The big top acts weren't too pleased with this. What if we tried to destroy it? Make it look like an accident? We all agreed with doing this.
Well, then came it's very last show. Heman announced the damned thing, and it started to disappear. Makes me wonder if it could actually hear and think. It took a while for it to come back, and the whole tent was silent for 10 minutes, other than the music that's supposed to be going along with the act. It did eventually come back but on a kid's lap. It had a fucking grenade with it. Everyone ducked, but the people sitting on that side of the stands were not so lucky. It went off, killing several people. We all knew that this was our time to get packed up. Hell, we're all very lucky that we got out of there when we did. Anyways, that stone elephant did not blow up in the explosion. It was the perfect excuse for us to destroy it. Herman found that kid's relatives and still mailed them a fucking bill. He's still waiting on that check to arrive. I try time and time again to tell him maybe it was because we fucking move our tent all the time, but he is still ignorant.
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