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blow, when Rogers perceived a young elephant 

 emerge from the same patch of jungle as the others 

 had previously done; and the evident uneasiness of 

 mind that the young one evinced by its antics and its 

 trumpetings soon made him suspect that it must be 

 the calf of one of the animals that had started away, 

 or, by no means an unlikely event, that it was its 

 own mother that had, perhaps in defence of this very 

 youngster, attacked Captain G . 



His plans were formed in an instant ; and the 

 stratagem showed the extraordinary presence of mind 

 that never forsook him under the most trying circum- 

 stances. 



Placing his two barrels within a foot of the young 

 elephant's neck, he sent in both balls; then seizing 

 another gun he planted one in the proboscis and 

 one behind, so that neither hit any vital part. 



Immediately that the youngster began to feel the 

 smart, it set up the most awful yelling that ever 

 mortal heard ; it might have been audible for miles ; 

 indeed, the wonder was that so much noise could 

 come from so small a compass. Another moment, 

 and the victim would have been torn limb from limb, 

 but before the elephant had succeeded in falling on 

 him the fearful meanings of its young one struck its 

 ear. 



Dropping its victim "like a hot potato," it rushed 

 furiously to where its offspring was still making the 

 welkin ring with the most hideous yells, but before 



