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seemed to take effect. I first fired six shots with the two- 

 grooved, which must have eventually proved mortal, but as 

 yet he evinced no visible distress ; after which I fired three 

 shots at the same part with the Dutch six-pounder. Large 

 tears now trickled from his eyes, which he slowly shut and 

 opened ; his colossal frame quivered convulsively, and, falling 

 on his side, he expired. The tusks of this elephant were 

 beautifully arched, and were the heaviest I had yet met with, 

 averaging ninety pounds weight apiece. 



All this is cool — very ! It is picturesque, not to say 

 theatrical ! Mr. Cummings, at this rate, might be educated 

 into a good American Borderer, and some day "come up to 

 the scratch" in a duello, hand-to-claw with a Grisly Bear, 

 after having exchanged the compliments of the morning with 

 him beneath the cold shadows of the Rocky Mountain peaks ! 



