236 ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS. 



elephants of the menagerie there with his trunk in the 

 air and his mouth wide open. After throwing fruit 

 and vegetables in for some time to make him repeat the 

 attitude, his keeper only pretended to do so, fearing to 

 give him too much food. The elephant at last became 

 irritated, and perfectly understood that the artist was 

 the cause of his annoyance. He therefore turned round 

 upon him, and dashed a quantity of water over the 

 paper on which he was drawing. It is chiefly in ani- 

 mals of greatest intelligence that we find the greatest 

 affection and gratitude. Elephants have somethne.3 

 refused to eat, and have pined to death when separated 

 from their favourite keepers, and they are never oblite- 

 rated from their memory. Their humanity is also 

 frequently conspicuous ; and we are told of one who, 

 on being ordered to walk over the bodies of some sick 

 persons, at first refused to advance, and then, on being 

 goaded by his driver, gently took the poor mon up with 

 his trunk and laid them on one side, so that he could 

 not do them any injury. 



The following is another fearful instance of their 

 power and vengeance, related by Mr. Burchell, a South 

 African traveller : ; Carl Krieger was a fearless hunter, 

 and being an excellent marksman, often ventured into 

 the most dangerous situations. One day having, with 

 his party, pursued an elephant which he had wounded, 

 the irritated animal suddenly turned round, and singling 

 out from the rest the person by whom he had been 

 injured, seized him with his trunk, and lifting his 

 wretched victim high in the air, dashed him with dread- 

 ful force to the ground. His companions, struck with 

 horror, fled precipitately from the fatal scene, unable 

 to look back upon the rest of the dreadful tragedy ; 



