Lakota elephants!

[willemdereuse at unt.edu]

We'll need to ask a couple of native speakers about the mysterious 
okicu part. It is much more likely that the meaning intended is 
something like "picks up with the upper lip" (of the end of the trunk). 
  That is by far the most striking thing with an elephant.  In Apache, 
elephant is "the one that ropes with his nose". It's nice to keep the 
Buechel-Manhart (1970) edition around...  The diacritics are clearer 
there.

> Il ne s'agit qu' un crime passionel, monsieur le juge! ;)

Permettez-moi de corriger ceci.  "Il ne s'agit que d'un crime passionnel..."

Willem (a compatriot of Georges Simenon and of Hercule Poirot)