Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-04-08


Of. Whsn yeu come 70 q br1s with
elephants Il isn't go.as-yo'l-pls - but
eo-as-they-pIease Those tire sDved
50 slowly that we were full Il. naan-
uies going ffly feet. ! was 81 80 On
the front Of the band Wagon, 81 EBuld
Just feel il meve, and that was Bet
~ would put down fn0l. try ahake
The bridge with it, put Der weIa mpOn
il gradually, and then send b4st se-
ries Of the queerest little efa q and
whinnies that you ever heaF " 6ul-
&c. zho Eeald a1swsF hsE r zlae
way.
sSouetimes Mary would join in their
conversation. Just as we got to the
centre o[ The bridge there was = crash,
and Sultan dropped right through from
betweeIis the shafts and ought Of sight,
like q bullet would sink In water, and
the other two darted across TO solid
ground, each giving frightened yell 90
il made the plunge. Well, we ran
down 70 Sultan. He had fallen in . sit
ting posture, and there be still sat, groan-
ing dreadfully. ttook twenty men and
ten horses, with blocks and tackle. 10
hoist him 10 has feet. With great trou-
BILE we got him out Of the ravine and up
to Mr.. 0lder's farm, where they nuTscd
him for week. They dosed hIm, and
used liniment on him by the kegful, but
still nothing seemed to relieve him.
"He just lay on his side, groaning
dreadfully, and touching the end Of bis
trunk to one eye as if trying to call at
tention to something there. The mo-
lion was noticed at last, and the doctor
went to work to examine that eye. The
instant he touched i. Sultan gave big
sigh of satisfaction, and stretched him
self out, as much as to say, That's the
place, look out for that The doctor
pulled out splinter, three-quarters as
long as your little finger, that had been
broken from the bridge and gone in right
beside Sultan's eye-ball, and as soon a
that was out the animal got up and CON-
menced to get better.
Elephants are very fond Of whisky
or any sort of liquor, especially If il has
lots of red pepper in it; and they are
not only fond Of getting drunk them
selves, but they are very considerate OF
drunken men. never yet knew Of an
elephant hurting drunken man. That
Long John, when he was staggering
drunk, would 60 right up to Sultan OF
Canada. when nobody else dared 10 90
near them, and would fool round them,
and swing on their tnsks ana theiF
trunks about, and 90 = sIek - ewn
by their feet, and they would not only
not do him any harm, but wouldn't lei
anybody else 60 near hIm until he chose
to wake up. And any real drunken
man can do pretty much what he pleases
with an elephant.
"The elephants skin is very sensi-
tive. Flies and mosquitoes win annoy
him almost as much as they would a
naked man. And big as he rs he IS a
very nervous animal. He isn't afraid
to fight any big beast, but a mouse will
throw him almost INTO fit with terror.
Let mouse get to running about the
elephant house at night, and NJ the keep
er does not run IN, IN response to their
wild trumpetings of alarm, they will
knock the house down to get out. And
when he goes among them at such q
time, they viii cluster around him as
close as they can stand to him, with
their trunks waving high in air. i'm
agine there must be some little beast
like mouse in their own country which
gets into their trunks when they are ly-
ing down asleep"