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Revenge of injuries. 



seemed to take no notice of the affront, but went 

 calmly on to the river, and washed ; after which 

 he stirred up the mud with one of his fore feet, 

 and sucked up a great quantity of the dirty water 

 into his trunk. Then passing unconcernedly 

 along the same side of the street, where the tay- 

 lor's shop was, he put in his trunk at the window; 

 and spurted out the water with such a prodigious 

 force, that the offender and his journeymen were 

 blown off their board, almost frightened out of 

 their senses." 



A painter was desirous of drawing the elephant 

 which was kept in the menagerie at Versailles, 

 in the attitude of holding his trunk raised up in 

 the air, with his mouth open. The painter's boy, 

 in order to keep the animal in this posture, threw 

 fruit into his mouth, but as he frequently deceived 

 him, the elephant grew angry , and _(as if con- 

 scious that the painter's intention of drawing him 

 had occasioned the insult,) he turned his resent- 

 ment upon the master, and taking a quantity of 

 water in his trunk, spurted it over the drawing 

 and completely spoiled it. 



At the Cape of Good Hope it is customary to 

 hunt and kill these animals, for the sake of their 

 teeth ; and upon such occasions three horsemen, 

 well mounted, and armed with lances, attack the 

 animal alternately, each relieving the other as 

 they see their companion pressed, till their victim 

 is totally subdued. Three Dutchmen, brothers, 

 who had accumulated considerable wealth by this 



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