The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-24


al His turn has come at last, WIS
t. my first notion; out, lookin:
S round, there was Elliot behind me
al was afraid she had tried i
{ on with you," / said.
"Who2'
II 'The elephant"
RI Elliot's face was not general,
4 expressive, but the look of silen
: scorn he gave me at the idea o
fl the elephant attacking him wa
!. worth seeing. The brute knew
| something / did not know. an,
, could not find out; and from thi
: one piece of knowledge he looked
t down upon me with sort of con
tempt that set all the Seven Dial!
blood on Ere.
81 will bottom this" said /, 81
L die for it"
My plan now was to feed Djel
every day with my own hand, bu
never to go near her without Ell
lot at my very side and in from
of the elephant.
This was my first step.
II We are now drawing TOWARD
! Newcastle, and had to lie at Nor
! petil, where we arrived late, ans
itonnd Mr.. Yates and NJ. Huguet
WHO had eOme out from Newcastle
to meet as; and at this place l de
termiped on q new move which
had long meditated.
| Elliot, / reflected Glways SLEPT
with the elephant. None of the
other men had ever done this
! Now might there not be some nag
ic ia this unbroken familiarity be
tween the two animals?
Accordingly. at Morpeth, 1 pre-
tended there was no bed vacant
in the ina. and asked Elliot to Let
me lie beside him: he grunted an
ungracious assent.
| Not to oyefdo it at first l got
Elliot between me and Dick, SO
that if she was offended ut my in
trusion she must pass over her
darling to resent it. We had
tramped a good many miles, and
were soon fast asleep.
About two in the morRiRg l was
awoke by shout and a crunch
ing, and felt myself dropping into
the straw ont of the elephants
mouth. She had stretched her
proboscis over him,-had taken
me up so deiicately that / felt
nothing, and when Elliot shouted
1 was in her mouth. At his
voice, that rung in my ears like
the last trumpet, she dropped me
like hot potato. rolled out of
the straw, giving tongue a good
one and ran out of the shed.
had no sooner got to the inn than
1 felt a sickening pain in my
shoulder and tainted away.
Her huge tooth had gone into
my shoulder like wedge. 1t was
myself I had heard being crunch,
ed.
They did what they could for
me, ahd 1 soon came to. When l
recovered my senses I was seized
with vomiting; but at last all VIC
lent symptoms abated, and l be-
gan to suffer great pain in the in
jured part, and did suffer for six
weeks.
And so scrapea clear. Some
how or other, Elliot was not drunk,
or nothing could have saved me.
for a second wonder, he, who was
a heavy sleeper, woke at the very
slight noise she made eating me:
a moment later, and nothing could
have saved me. I use too many
words,-sGppose she had eaten
me,-what then?
They told Mr.. Yates at break
fast, and he sent Tor me, and ad-
vised me to lie quiet at Morpeth
till the fever of the wound should
re Oft me; but refused. She was
!, start at ten, and l told him
al ould start with her.
Running from grim death like
thS t, 1 had left my shoes behind in
the shed, and NJ. Huguet, sent
his servant Baptiste, an italian,
for Il EN-.
Mr.. Yates then asked me for all
The, pna ticulars, and, while 1 was
SLING him and n. Huguet, we
heard n commotion in the street.
and saw people running, and pres
entity one of the walters ran in and
cried
s.The Gle, ollant has killed man
or near ii"
Mr.. Yates laughed and said
HNot auit : SO bad as that: for
here is tine man."
s.No, no." cried the waiter, sit is
not him5 it is one OF the foreign
ers."
Mr.. Yates started up all trem-
hing. He ran to the stable.
followed him as I was, and there
we saw a sight to make our blood
run cold. On the corn-biR lay
! ,oor Baptiste crushed into mum
! ~. How it happened there was
q means oc knowing; but, nc
3 0ubt, while he was groping IN
IL straw for my wretched shoes
n struck him with her trunk
De rhaps more than Once; his
0r east bones were Droken tC
chi 'ps, and every time he breatksd
WIN ich by gods mercy was no
ma ny minutes, the mans whole
cha st-frame pulled out like :
bla oder with the action of hi
TN gs: it was too horrible to lool
: at.
I elliot had run at Baptiste's cry
hut too late to save his life thi
tim, }. He had drawn the man gu
of IL ,e straw as she was about t
.poun d him to jelly, and ther
/ the DC ,or soul lay on the corn-bir
and BY his side lay the things b
had di ed for,-two old shoes
Elliot had found them in th
straw. a, nd put them there of a
places in the world.
By this time all Morpeth wa
out. The besieged the door
and vowed death to the elephan
NJ Huguet became greatly alarm
ed. He couL lspare Baptiste, bu
he could not $ 7are Dick. he &C
Mr.. Yates to pacify the people
sTen them som. thing" said he.
esrvIA til oan / saw fC