84 THE OUT- STATION; OR, 



CHAPTER VII. 



MAJOR TOM ROGERS OF OURS ; AND HIS EXPLOITS.* 



HAVING patronised the elephants to such a con- 

 siderable extent, perhaps the reader would now have 

 no objection " audire alter am part em," and spend half- 

 an-hour in company with their bitterest antagonist, 

 listening to a few of his personal anecdotes connected 

 with the everlasting warfare he waged against the 

 tribe. 



That these brief sketches may meet the eye of 

 many now living in Ceylon that knew our hero well, 

 as also of those of his brethren in arms since scat- 

 tered over the face of the globe, is not improba- 



* The above story (or something not unlike it) I published 

 some years since in the " Sporting Magazine," the editor 

 whereof has kindly allowed me to re-use it, on acknowledg- 

 ing its former locality. 



