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for if one has been shot all the herds in the district hear 

 about it, and in a day or two there is not an elephant to 

 be found anywhere. When the sun is hot they will 

 shelter during the day in dense jungles of ' wait-a-bit ' 

 thorns, only coming out every third or fourth day to 

 drink and wash in some pool or river, very often thirty or 



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forty miles away. This done they go back to a sheltered 

 place and lie comfortably down to sleep, with their backs 

 to an ant-hill, which shows an odd taste in beds. 



Well, early one morning Colonel Gordon Cumming left 

 the hole in which he had been sleeping, and climbed up 

 a high rock to see if there was any chance of an elephant. 

 Yes, sure enough, there were nine or ten huge creatures 



