With Fhishli^'ht and Rifle 



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foot away, intent on lliLiht, and most fortunateK* paxlng 

 LIS no attention. 



Count Thiele-Winckler tells nie of an exactly similar 

 incident which occurred in India. 



Moments such as these are hard to realise in safety 

 and comfort here at home. Ijrief though they be, they 

 live ever afterwards in the memory, and have a charm 

 all their own. To a])j)reciate their delight to the full a 

 man must he able to enter into the spirit of th(_' sur- 

 roundings, and must be sensitive to the marvellous and 

 majestic scenery in which they are niet with. But not 

 the most skilled of pens could succeed in bringing home 

 their magical fiscination to the mind of th(' reader who 

 has not himself experienced anxthing of the kind. E\en 

 the man who has gone through them can only recall them 

 in their details when his memorx" is at its best. 



I am apt to look at the elephants in the Zoological 

 Gardens very differently now, almost with a feeling of 

 awe and reverence, and I feel ashamed of the foolish 

 gapers who seek to exercise their wit at th(.' expense of" 

 the cagetl giant. How they would take to their heels 

 if they met him in the wilderness and he bore down 

 upon them ! 



Two days later, to my great sur|)rise, both the bull 

 elephants had sought tht-ir fuouritc; haunt again, but at 

 sunset th('y vanished just as hea\\- masses of clouds 

 began to come down over the wood, with a wonderfully 

 impressive effect. 'J hey went in the direction of a thick 

 girdle of" trees. The wind was fixourable. 



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