Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-10-22
TIE CRACK SPORT OF CrYlDN.

There is an jdea very prevalent among
English sportsmen that there is tameness
an uunteresting slowness in foreign sport
ing, hat keeps it far below the par OF the
sports of our native land, MIny writer's
h We done all that brain and pen COM blned
.,gether can do TO dssiplte this idea, and
although their graphic descriptions ofIudian
sporting ave re I'd and admired, 1t is general
IL accompan ed by shrug of most stiff
ueckel incredibly, Now, reader, my dear
Ii lie fellow, would not be gu Ivy of an at
tempt 10 .'bora" YOU for all my sp1r, ng re-
, Itltion and f YOU will allow M 10 give
h At in case Won are IN homme bias, OF
used up as the play-biIIs have it,) how
Ia dssiplte your effect of The "crack spou
o.C=ylon," we Will in Imagination, dotf the
scarlet coat and the velve;een shoo;lng Jack-
e, and having inves ourselves with the
most approp.ue Cngalese costume dc ctaS-
s., W., huge straw bat, and blue jacket
aid uowsers Of The l'ghiest ma;e,ial, We will
Il JUS verge from the fort of Trincoma-
lee INFO the Jungle, and will show YOU
witl IS to be done there, an enlighten you
as to what has been done.
The D., having arrived at Trincoma
Ice, II was agreed al mess that an elephant
p ty should be made up in the course OF
the week, for the purpose Of showing some
officers of the ship some elephant shooting.
! Tae DIV came and half dozen fellows
two Of them beng crack elephant shots Of
/ the standardized forth after the animals
which are 20 be found 10 all directions in
! The neighborhood Of all people in the
world 10 90 out elephant shooting with, ma
val tlficers are the very worst, from reck-
less sort of feeling what danger they iucul
or bring on those with them, as long as they
got pop" at the animal they are ptted
against Jack" goes into the field deter
mined to bllze away until he has not a sho'
fl in the locker; and, in the present in,
: aacc, this Circumstance nearly cost gal
lant post captain life that had far beuei
have been lost on his own garter deck.
The heaters having given notice that al
elephant was in the patch of jungle opPo
site, away hurried The party 10 see who
would get the first shot. in spite of all the
sober responsiveness Of The old stagers, who
knew they mus, look out for squalls. The
firing soon commenced. and as the smoke
of the guns had cleared of, a scene peseR-
led itself that brought our heroes to thea
senses and gave them yvid picture of the
..crack sport of CevIon." Trumpeiing, vel
ling. and screechIng from pain caused by
her wounds. the elephant had dashed from
her cover, had seized Mold oil the first per
son that came in her way with her tsunk
(Which was Captain C and was rush
ing round the plain with him held high ii
the air, and apparently only looking out fo'
convenient place where she could knee
on him. and crush him to death. What va:
to be done To have fired with any chance
of shaving the animal would have been dou
bly dangerous TO G., as ne was in sucf
IA position that he covered the mortal par
ofthe elephants head. 1t was horrible
scene to those wko viewed il what il wa:
Ito the sufferer he alone can tell the story
The elephant at last having got into cor
aer. far from the others. pulled up and be
gan TO lower c. TO the ground. A
scream from The jungle from which the ell
ephant had first emerged brought everv one
| 10 attention. in expectation of having al
| ;ttack made on his own lie ; in tnomen
after. little calf (young elephant shewet
Eitself GA the plain, aud, quick as thought, !
bulle, was lodged behind It's shoulder where