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TJie Wild Elephant. 



forced away from them, the remainder of the group 

 evinced increased emotion and excitement ; but what- 

 ever may have been their sympathy for their lost cora- 





panions, their alarm seemed to prevent them at first 

 from following them to the trees to which they had 

 been tied. In passing them afterwards they sometimes 

 stopped, mutually entwined their trunks, lapped them 

 round each other's limbs and neck, and exhibited the 



