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should not greatly care to kill any more elephant. They 

 are too big, too old and wise, to be classed as mere game. 

 As I stood by the side of that vast fallen bulk, I realized I 

 had extinguished a life perhaps more than three times as 

 old as my own. What had not these great beasts seen and 

 survived ? What comings and goings of the tribes ? What 

 changes among the petty bands of men. He was probably 

 a full-grown elephant when Livingstone first resolutely 

 set his face toward Africa's unknown interior. I felt 

 small, and a little guilty. 



