The Litchfield County post., 1829-01-22

and female, tn an open spot near the skirts of thick and thorny jungle. The animals fled towards the thicketS; and the
 male in spite of many balls which struck
 him Intellectually, was soon safe from the reach of the purSuers; but the female was
 so soreIy wounded, that she was unable to
 retreat with the same alacrity, and the
 hunters having got between her and the
 wood, wese preparing speedily to finish
 her career,----when all at once, the male
 rushed forth with the utmost rage from his
 hiding place, and with ShriIl and frighttul scream, like the loud sound of the trumpet charged down upon the huntsmen. So ter- rife was the animals aspect, that all in-
 stinctvely sprung to their horses, and fled for life. The elephant, disregarding the others, singled out an unfortunate person, (Cobus Hopper l think was his name,) who was the last person that had fired on
 its wounded comrade, and who was stand- ing with his horses bridle over his arm,re-
 loading his huge gun the moment the infu- riated animal burst from the wood. Cobus
 also leaped hastily on horseback but before he could seat himself in his saddle the ele- phant was upon him. One blow from his
 proboscis struck poor Cobus to the earth:
 and without troubling himself about the
 horse, (which galloped off in terror, he thrust
 his gigantic tusks@through the mans body,
 and then after stamping it flat with his pom derous foot, again seized it with his trunk.
 and flung it high into the air. Having thus wreaked vengeance upon his foes, he walk
 ed gently up to his consort, and affection
 ately caressing her, supported her wound , ed side with his shoulder, and regardless
 of the vollies of balls. with which the hun-
 ters who had again rall ed to the conflict, assailed them, he succeeded in conveying
 her from their reach into the recesses of l the forest.
 One of my own friends, Lieut.. John R, Noodle of the Scotch FusiIeers, ,now a set
 tier in South Africa, ,had most miraculous
 escape on an occasion somewhat similar.
 He had gore out on an elephant hunt with
 a party of friends; and had already suc-
 ceeded in killing one or two of a small
 herd, and the rest were retreating before
 them toward their woody Businesses, when
 one ofthe females having been separated
 from her young one among the bushes,f for got all her safety in maternal anxiety,and
 turned back in wrath upon her pursuers to
 search for it, M' Noodle who happened
 to be on foot d, ih" ,,me. was the frs, in-
 divldual that the animal caught sight of.
 and she instantly rushed upon him. To
 escape from an angry elephant in an open area, is often difficult enough for we'll
 mounted horseman. My friend gave him. selfup for lost nor would the activity of despair have avaied him-the animal was close at his heels Blu just at the moment when she was about to seize him or strike him 10 the earth wish her upraised probos- ciS, he fortunately stumbled and fell The elephant, unable at once to arrest her i'm. pctu"uS Career, made an attempt to thrust
 hm through with her tu>ks as he lay upon 'he ground before her,and ac;nally tore up the earth within an inch or two of his body and slightly bruised him with her huge feet as he passed over him. Before, how ever, she coald turn back to destroy him. Mir Noodle contrived to scramble into inc wood, and her yonng one at the same time raising its c.v in ano h .r direction. the au imal went off without searching further for him. Juvenile Keepsake.
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