4 THOSE OTHER ANIMALS. 



is not capable of holding many ideas, his memory of an 

 injury is particularly retentive, and if he has to wait for 

 years, he will get even at last with any one who has played 

 him a trick. In old 

 times the elephant was 

 trained to war. 

 Gunpowder had 

 not been in- 

 vented, 

 and the 

 elephant 



.was there- 

 -fore prac- 

 t i c a 1 1 y 

 invulner- 

 able ; but 



even then his utility was problematical, and if pricked by 

 an arrow or javelin, he was as likely as not to turn tail, and 

 to spread confusion and death in the ranks of the troops 

 that marched behind him. His courage, in fact, is beyond 



