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bushes he had thrust his trunk too close to a poisonous 
tree snake and had been stung; that he had beaten 
the snake on to the ground with his trunk and stamped 
it todeath. In the bronze I pictured the snake alive 
on the ground and the elephant in the act of tram- 
pling it to death. 
In addition to these elephant bronzes I have done 
one other bronze of a combat between a lion and a 
buffalo, and I have two other elephant subjects 
started inclay. Ihave never seen a lion and a buffalo 
fight nor do I know of any one else who has. But I 
know at least two authentic records of the dead bodies 
of a lion and a buffalo together—mute evidence of a 
fight to a finish and death to both. And I have seen 
dead buffalo carcasses from which one could tell 
pretty well how the lion had killed his prey. The 
lion tries to throw the buffalo in much the same 
manner as a cowboy “bulldogs” a steer—that is, he 
throws him by jerking the buffalo’s head down. In 
the bronze I have represented the lion as having 
“bulldogged”’ the buffalo by catching his nose with 
a front paw and bending his head to the ground in 
his effort to throw him. The buffalo has saved him- 
self from a fall by bracing himself with one front foot 
and the scene is set for a battle royal unless the lion 
bolts. 
One of the bronzes that will soon be published 
records a scene that will always be a pleasant memory, 
tome. Iwas watching an elephant herd on the march 
through an open grass country. The elders moved 
along sedately enough, but at one side of the herd 
