Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-15
"ELLA'' STUCK TO FHlr1

ed to his side. The lifeboats were
picking up some others who had been
thrown to a distance. In a swirl of
yeasty water the elephant came up,
threshing like grampus. and circled.
striving for a view of her affinity. She
spied him, and made for the raft.
Drive your internal elephant away,
Bragg" his companions shrieked, flap
ping their wet hands in vain attempt
to shoe off the great beast, whose han.
kering for the companionship of Badly
rendered her obstinate.
"She aint mine and can't drive
her." lamented Bragg. mo one can
drive her when she's got her mind
made up"
As she approached the raft Ella
showed very determined intentions to
Chamber on II and join the expedition.
A deckhand beat at her thick skull
with an oar. but she trumpeted shrilly
and persisted in her attempts. Her
writhing trunk came cropping for a
purchase on the raft.
"She will drown us ALL" was the
chorus of despair.
Curse you. Bragg, can't you drive
with fear.
"She won't leave me-" groaned Bal.
dy dismally. Ella gave the raft 81.
gantic flop as she planted great fore.
foot on the edge, slipped of and sank
again. But she bobbed out Of the
swirl and once more made for the raft.
IF she won't leave you, go with her.
then" snarled a man. You're not
goin' to be the means Of drownin' the
whole of U.S." He suddenly pushed
Bragg over the edge Of the raft. Badly
caught his hand around the water.
tight compartment and clambered
back. But two men now seized him,
swung him free from the raft and fired
him ten feet away. His shrek of de.
SPAR was smothered by the water as
he went down.
When he came up blindly cropping
and clutching, his hands caught the
nicked and familiar ears of his per
sistent charge. She had fioundered to
the spot where he disappeared. Grasp
ing the skin flaps of the elephants
neck, Badly slowly hoisted his soggy
personality out Of the water and noun
ted the animals broad back.
You're better off than Jonah was
anyway" cried the clown. You've got
an outside seat"
Even the trembling men on the raft
laughed at the sally. as they gazed on
, the picturesque appearance of Badly
| But when he begged them to take him
into a boat the men grew sober again
, They expressed the kindly hope that
he and Ella would get safely to shore
but they announced with great firm
ness that he aud his dangerous com
panion were definitely excluded from
their society for the present. Follow
ing the lead of the captain, the process
sion of boats disappeared in the fog
We're goin down the reach to Deei
Isle landing" the skipper called bach
to the melancholy Badly. But that
$ some wayssfrom here. You'd bette
r punch up your elephant, and let he
:. swim ashore anywhere here. Shell
. probably know the way by instinct"
: such things as this makes ye prout
of the human race" muttered the de
, spairing Badly, clutching at Elias we
2 hide and fairly sobbing in his ange
( and his fear. But the elephant evinc
: ed no desire to follow the boats. A
D soon as the fog had swallowed then
v up she whirled a few times, beatinl
+ the water and then began to swim
e stolidly. The burning steamer driftet
A behind red smudge in the fog.
,. After a time Badly, peering wistfull
z ahead, saw the loom of land, and foun
D that Ella, with the unerring instinc
OF the intelligent beast, had mad
}. shore in a cove. She waded splash
c ingly up the shadows. A short di:
lance away was a farmhouse with 1t
/" outbuildings. In a garden plot nea
t a youth was at work. As the appar
ton emerged from the sea the DO!
:. evidently believing that some new spC
:. cies of ocean monster was about to a
n tack him. stared brief moment an
u then, throwing down his hoe, with
wide sweep he broke for the nous
e with a yell of alarm. When Bald
:, rode up to the door on his swayinl
II Looping steed an apprehensive ma
e stood at the door OF the house, his gu
n across his arm. His amazed famil
s was grouped behind him.
# What be you?" stammered the ia
Il mer.
l. Man" said Bragg laconically. AN
e this is an elephant" he added, rollin
off and slipping to the ground. Thei
n being a matterof.fact chap who di
II not enjoy mystifying people, he e,
r planned the circumstances that ha