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TJic }]'ild Elephant. 



it resembled the writhings of a gigantic worm ; he coiled 

 it and uncoiled it with restless rapidity, suddenly unfold- 

 ing it to its full length, and coiling it up again like a 

 watch-spring. Another, which lay otherwise motionless 

 in all the stupor of hopeless anguish, slowly beat the 

 ground with the extremity of his trunk, as a man in 

 despair beats his knee with the palm of his hand. 



They displayed an amount of sensitiveness and deli- 

 cacy of touch in the foot, which was very remarkable in 

 a limb of such clumsy dimensions and protected by so 

 thick a covering. The noosers could always force them 

 to lift it from the ground by the gentlest touch of a leaf 

 or twig, apparently applied so as to tickle ; but the im- 

 position of the rope was instantaneously perceived, and 

 if it could not be reached by the trunk the other foot 



