Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-06

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carry or that ivory I wouId In mis- wav
or in that wav I swore that 7 would ! who
couId noqsihIv die with 90 much ivorv to he
had for the taking? Not that old hunter
Allan OuatermaIn
Then forgot about the ivory for there
Ii n m ha
lust as had seen II in the dreom-ncture
was the bull elephant diving n thIn and an
cient brute that had lived its long life IN the
last hour. II searched about as though to
find n convenient resting nlace and when
this was discovered stood over II s,vaving
TO and fro for n full minute Then II lifted
its trunk and trumpeted sbriIIv ,brice sing
ing IFS swansong' after which IL sank
SLOWLY 10 its knees its trunk outstretched
and the points of it's worn tusks resting on
the ground Evidently IL was dead
LET nv eves travel on and bebold I,
about flfty wards beyond the dead hulI
was a mound of hard rock I watched IL
with gasping expectation and-yes, on
the ton of the mound something SLOWLY
materiaIized
Although I knew what IL must he we'll
enough for a whiIe I could NOT GOO ouita
clearly because there were certain little
| clouds about and one of then, had Aooted
over the face of tho moon II naseed and
before me, perhaps a hundred and forty
| paces AWAY outlined clearly against the
| sky, | perceived the deyilish elephant OF
| NV vision
| on what a bruta was that, In bu,l,
| and height II anneared Ia be baIf nc bjg
| again as any OF its tribe which 7 had
| known in all nv life's experience II was
| enormous unearthly a survivor nerhans Of
| some snecies that lived before the Elood
| ortat least a very giant of It's kind rs
| prav-bIack sides wese scarrad as though
| viii fgbtirp Ona of its bugo ,uel,s ,nuch
| worn at the end for evidently n was very
old cleaned white In tho moonlight The
other was broken off about halfway down
its length, When perfect II had been mai
| formed for il curved downward and NOT
| inward also rather out of the right
| There stood this nammoth This levia
than, this 'monstrum horrendum informa
ingens "a I remember NV old father usad
70 cali a certain gigantic and misshanen
| hull that we had on the Station aanning
| a nair Of ears that looked like the sides
of a Kafr hut, and waving a trunk as big
as a weaver's beam-whateyer a weayers
| beam NAV be-an appaIlinr and a netri-
fving sight
Il snuatted behind the skeleton of an ola
nbant which hanpened 10 he handy and wei,
covered with moss and ferns and Watched
| the beast. fascinated. wishing that 7 had
n Iorre-bore rife in NV hand What he
came of Marut I do NOT exactly know bn,
| I think that he Law down on The eround
Dmr,rg the minute or so that foiiou,oa
reelected a good deal. as we do in tin,es
of emergency often after a useless sort ~
fashion. For Instance wondered wbv The
br,te So" anpearsd thus upon vonSer ~mo nouud tme
rG'o ord the Thought tp Suggested itseIr ouu t mo-