The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-03-01
NY LORD TIM ELEPHANT
Rcing "a Further Contribution to the
History of soldiers Three.


,ther tales by the same author, in n
iolume entitled 'Many Inventions. -
" Y. sun.
Continued from BesterddB)
"Then behild him ruunin' wan way,
tufrin' the bracelets in his pocket, they
,ein' Comment property, and the gyard
'unnin' another, and all the dogkyarts
'unnin' all ways to wanst, an me alone
ookin' down the red bag av mouth av
IN elephint forty-two feet high at the
shoulder, tin feet wide, wild tusks as
ong as the Ochterlony Monumit. That |
was my first reconnaissance. Maybe he :
was not quite so contagious, nor quite /
so tall, but didn't stop to throw out
pickuts. Mither av hiven, how | ran
down the road! The haste began to in |.
vestigate the dhrain wild the gunner !
Off Ger in ut: an that was the maxim av
me- | tripped over wan av the rifles
that my gyard had discarded -- on
blackgyards they was!--an'
whin got up1 was facin' t'other way
about an the elephint was huntin' for
the gunner-orfcer | can see his big fat
back Wit. Except that he didn't dig, he
carried on for all the world like little
Vixen here at a rat hole. He put his
head down (by my sowl, he nearly stood
on utD to shquint down the dhrain, thin
he'd grunt and run round to the other
ind in case the ort'cer was gone out by
the back door; an he'd shtutf his thrunk
down the flue and get ut filled wild mud
an blow ut out an grunt an swear! My
troth. he swore all hiven down upon the
OFFICER; an what acommissariat elephint
had to do wild gunner-Orf'c Ger passed
me. Me havin nowhere to 20 EXCEPT to
ClinS, stud in the road wild the rifle,
a SnideT an no ammunition, philOso-
phiZin upon the rear ind av the animal.
All round me, miles an miles, there was
howlin' desolation, for ivry human sow!
wild two legs. or four for the matther av
that, was ambuscadin', an this ould rap
paree stud on his head tuggin an
gruntin' above the dhrain, his tail stick
in up to the sky an he thryin' to
thrumpet through three feet av road
sweepin's up his thrunk. Begad, twas
wicked to behold!
"Subsequint, he caught sight av me
standin' alone in the wide. wide world.
lanin' on the rifle. That dishcomposed
him, bekase he thought was the gun.
ner.orf'C got out unbeknownst. He
looked betune his feet at the dhrain, an
he looked at me, an | SEE to myself
Terence, my son, you've been watchin'
this Noah's ark too long. Run for the
lifer Dear knows l wanted to tell him
l was only poor privit on my way to
Clink. an no OFFICER at all. at all but
he put his ears forward av his thick
head, an | reiterated down the road,
grippin' the rifle, my back as cowld as a
tombstone, an the slack av my trousies,
where | made sure he'd take hould,
IA -,
sion.
II might ha' run till l dropped, be-
kase | was. betune the two straight lines
av the road, an man, or a thousand
men for the matther av that, are the
like av sheep in keepin' betune right an
left marks"
Same as canaries," said Ortheris
from the darkness. Draw line on a
bloomin' little board, put their bloomin
little beakses there, stay so for hever an
hever, amen, they will. Seed a ole
regiment, l ave, walk crabways along
the edge of two-foot water cut std o.
thinkin' to cross it. Men is sheep
blooming sheep. Go on"
but l saw his shadow with the tail
av my eye," continued the man of ex-
periences, IAN Wheel seq, Terence,
wheelr an | wheeled. IT'S truth that
could hear the sparks flynn from my
heels; an l shpun into the nearest COM
pound, fetched wan jump from the
gate to the veranda av the house, and
fell over tribe of naygurs wild half
caste boy at a desk, all manufacture
harness. Twas Antonio's Carriage EN-
porium at Cawnpore. He know ut,
SORT?
"Ould Grambags must ha' wheeled
! 81. l. l.
| lickin' into the verandy like belt in a
barrick-room row, before l was in the
shop. The naygurs an the half-caste boy
/ howled an whit out the back door, an
! | stood lone as Lots wife, among the
harness. A powerful thirsty thing is
harness, by reason of the smell to ut.
81 wint into the back room. nobody
bein there to invite, an found bottle
av whisky and a cog let av wather. The
! first and the second drink / niver
noticed bein dhry, but the fourth and
the fifth took good hould av me, an
begun to think scornful of elephints.
Take the upper ground in manGuvrin'
| Terence, SEE; AN you'll be a genral
yet, SEE l. And wild that / wint up to
| the flat mud roof av the house, an
looked over the edge av the para
pit, threadin delicate. Ould barrel
belly was in the compound, walkin' to
an fro, pluckin' piece av grass an a
weed there, for all the world like our
colonel, that is now whin his wife's
given him talkin' down an he's prom
nadin' to ease his timper, His back was
to me, an be the same token hiccup-
ped. He checked in his walk, wan ear
| forward like deaf ould lady wild an
ear thrumpet, and his thrunk hid out
| in l. oh -,
he wagged his ear, sayin', DO my sinses
deceive meY as plain as print, an he re-
comminced promenadin'. Ye know An
tonio's compound: Twas as full thin
as It's now av new kyarts an old kyarts,
and secondhand kyarts and kyarts for
hire-landos, an brooches, an brooms,
and wag'nettes av ivry description.
Thin hiccupped again, an he began to
study the ground beneath him, his tail
whistlin' wild emotion. Thin he Tapped
his thrunk round the shaft av wag'-
nette an dhrew ut out circumspectuous
an thoughtful. He's not there he seq,
fumbln' in the cushions wild his thrunk,
Thin | hiccupped again, an wild that he
lost his patience good an all, same as
this wan in the lines here"
The gun elephant was breaking into
peal after peal of indignant trumpetings,
to the great disgust of the other ami
mails who had finished their food and
wished to browse. Between the out
cries we could hear him picking rest.
lessly at his ankle ring.
AS was sayin'," Mulvaney went on,
che behaved dishgraceful. He let out
wild his forefut like steam hammer,
bein' convinced that | was in ambuscade
ADJACENT; an that MAGNETIC ran back
among the other carriages like a field
gun in charge. Thin he hauled out
again and shuk ut, an by nature it
came all to little pieces. After that he
went sheer damn, slam, dancln' lunatic
double-shuffie demented wild the whole
of Antonio's shtock for the season. He
kicked, an he straddled, and he stamped,
an he pounded all at wanst, his big