The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-02-28
NV LORD THE rruruA>r


by whom it is copyrighted and newly |
published. together with Il number Of /
other tales by the same author, IN a |
volume entitled Many Inventions. -
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Touching the truth Of this tale there
need be no doubt at all, for II was told
to me 10y Mulvaney at the back of the
elephant lines one warm evening when
we were taking the dogs out for eN
rrciSe. The twelve Government ele-
chants rocked at their piCkets outside
the big mud-walled stables zone arch, as
| wide as q bridge arch, to each restless
| JeasIl. and the mahoutS were prepW ing
| he evening meal Now and again some
/ impatieut yOungstcr would smell the
| cooking of our flour cakes and -queal;
aud the naked little children of the ele.
phant lines would strut down the row
! ihuuting and commanding silence, or
! reaching up, would slap mt the eager
trunks. Then the elephants feigned to
/ Je deeply Interested in pouring dust
upon their heads. but SO soon rs the
children passed, the rocking. fighting
and muttering broke out again.
The sunset was dying, and the ele-
plants heaved aud swayed dead black
against the one sheet of rusercd low
down in the dusty gray sky. 1t WAS at
the beginning of the hot weather, just
after the troops had changed into their
white clothes, so Mulvdney and Orthelis
looked like ghosts through the dusk.
LcarOyd bad goue of to another barraci
to buy sulphur ointment for his last dog
under suspicion of mango, and with
delicacy had put his kennel into quaran-
tine at the back of the furnace where
] tlAE- pratpYta Ina ant lrD tsneHg
You wouldn't like mango, little
woman = said Ortheris, turning my ter.
rier over IN her fat white back with his
foot. You're no end bloUmin par.
tic'llr you are. 90 wouldn't take no
notice o me t'othcr day cause she was
gOiu 'ume all alone in 'er dorg cart, ell
Settin' on the box seat like a blOomn
little tart, you was, Nicy. Now you
run along an make them 'uttees 'oller.
Sick EN-, Nicy, loo I"
Elephants lOathe little dogs. NiNel
barked herself down the pickets, and in
a minute all the elephants were kicking
, and squealing and clucking together.
"Oh. YOU soldier men, said mahout
: angrily, "call off your she dog, She is
+ frightening our elephant folk.
''Rummy beggers!' said Ortheris
meditatively. Call em people, same
= as if they was An they are, too. Not
SO bloomin' rummy when you come to
think of it, neither.
Vixen returned yapping to show that
; she could do it again if she liked, and
established herself between Ortheris'
knees, smiling large smile at his law
full dogs who dared not fly at her.
Seed the battery this morninT said
Orpheris. He meant the newly arrived
elephant battery: otherwise he would
have said simply gums" Three ele-
plants harnessed tandem 20 to each
gun, and those. who have not seen the
big furty-pouuders of position trundling
along in the wake of the gigantic team
have vet something to behold. The
lead elephant had behaved very badly
on parade; had been cut loose, sent
back to the lines in disgrace, and was
at that hour squealing and flashing out
with his trunk at the end Of the line. a
picture of blind, bound, bad temper.
His mahout standing clear of the fail.
like blows, was trying to sooth him.
l That's the beggar that cut up on
6 p'rade. Els must" said Ortheris point.
ing "There'll be murder in the line,
| soon, and then, per'aps, ii get loose an
We'll ave to be turned out to shoot i'm,
same as when one o they native kings
+ elephants musted last June. 'Ope e
will"
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to the gun team, an by natur' he hates
hauling. Ask the mahout sOrr.'
hailed the old white bearded ma
bout, who was lavishing pet words on
his sulhy red-eyed charge.
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