A Crocodile once had a long-standing dispute with an Elephant. Several attempts has been to bring them together-- but all to no purpose.
Evey time the other animals held a meeting in the cause of resolving their differences, neither the Crocodile nor Elephant would attend (They did show up once but it ended in an uproar with the two gravely abusing each other).

At last, one day, the Elephant was drinking from a riverbank, when he saw the crocodile,...