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

stream that the water had III BE Ont
OF. When you come 70 . ba With
elephants It isn't go-as-y0u-r rs, but
go-as-they-pIease. Those thrz mored
50 slowly that we were full IN Inln-
ufes going City feet. 1 was Ing o.
the front OF the band Wagon could
Just feel Il meve, and that vas Bet
sy would put down foot, to zhake
the bridge with il, put her wei Hpon
il gradually, and then send VT So
ries Of the queerest little and
whinnies that yon ever bead % So.
tan, who would answer her In the same
way.
Sometimes Mary would join in their
conversation. Just as we got to the
centre of the bridge there was a crash,
and Sultan dropped right through from
between 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 as
It made the plunge. Well, we ran
down to Sultan. He had fallen in sit
ting posture, and there he still sat, groan-
ing dreadfully. II took twenty men and
ten horses, with blocks and tackle, to
hoist him 10 hiS feet. With great trou.
BILE we got him out of the ravine and up
TO Mr.. Older's farm, where they nursed
him for a 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, grooming
dreadfully, and touching the end Of bis
trunk to one eye as if trying to call at
tention to something there. The mo-
ton was noticed at last, and the doctor
went to work to examine that eve. The
instant he touched !. 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 a:
long as your little finger, that had beer
broken from this bridge and gone in right
beside Sultan's eye-ball, and as soon a
that was out the animal got up and com.
menced to get better.
elephants are very fond Of whisky
or any sort of liquor, especially il il ha:
lots of red pepper in it; and they are
not only fond Of getting drunk them.
selves, but they are very considerable Of
drunken men. never yet knew Of ar
elephant hurting drunken man. That
Long John, when he was staggering
drunk, would go right up to Sultan OF
Canada, when nobody else dared TO &C
near them. and WOULD fool round them,
and sx Il, Sos...d asks end toss their
trunks about, and 60 to sleep night down
by their feet, and they would not only
not do him any harm, but wouldn't lei
anybody else go near HIM until he chose
to wake up. And any real drunken
man can do pretty much what he please:
with an elephant.
"The elephants skin is very senSi-
tive. Flies and mosquitoes will annoy
him almost as much as they would a
naked man. And big as he Is he Is q
very nervous animal. He isn't afraid
to fight any big beast, but a mouse wall
throw him almost INTO ct with terror
Leta mouse get to pruning about the
elephant house at night, and II the keep
er does not run in, IN response to their
wild trumpetings OF alarm, they viii
knock the house down to get out. And
when he goes among them at such a
time, they viii cluster around him a:
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"