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poor creature until daylight the next morning. He left it ineffectu- 

 ally endeavouring to make use of the fractured limb by frequently 

 lifting it with his trunk and placing it in front. 



THE MIGBTY KING. Par. 458. 



460. Colonel W., whose artistic sketch shows that he was an 

 undeniable hand at the pencil, whatever he might be with the rifle, 

 was ambitious of being able to say he had killed an elephant. He, 

 therefore, begged leave to give the wounded animal its coup de 

 grace. It was found wallowing in an adjacent buffalo hole. Colonel 

 W. got within twelve yards of it, but bespattered by the mud the 

 disabled beast threw over him the novel and only defence it could 



make his aim was so uncertain, that, after all, K g had to put 



the sufferer out of its misery. 



461. Colonel W.'s ambition recals to my mind a singular adver- 

 tisement, though I cannot think that even he would have answered 

 it had he been in London at the time. It appeared in the papers 

 many years ago, but was too ludicrous not to be still in the recollec- 

 tion of many. A perfumer in Bishopsgate Street Without, gave 

 notice in conspicuous characters " to SPORTSMEN," that a splen- 

 did Bear was to be killed on his premises, at which they might 

 have a shot by paying, I now forget what exact sum. 



462. I am told that an examination of the skulls of the Asiatic 

 and African elephants would show a marked difference between the 

 two, and explain why the latter animal cannot be instantaneously 

 killed. In the Asiatic elephant there is a spot about the size of a 

 man's hand between and somewhat above the eyes, where a bullet 



