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with a steel hood in front to protect the elephant from 

 draught and dust. The rear of the truck is arched over 

 with steel girders, and a double steel rail supports the 

 elephant on either side. In some admirable illustrations 

 of elephant life recently published, the process of * en- 

 training elephants by means of railway elephants trained 

 to the business, who coax and push them on board,' is 

 very clearly shown. 



Dog-boxes ! These survive, like the l clink ' and 

 the stocks in old villages, in the designs of guard's 

 vans ; but for years no humane guard has ever used 

 these carefully barred, dark little dungeons. At present 

 there is no suitable accommodation whatever for dogs 

 travelling by rail, except on the Scotch expresses. 

 They are simply tied up among the parcels in the 

 guard's van, an inconvenient and objectionable practice. 

 Sheep suffer less than cattle on railway journeys. Being 

 lower in the legs and addicted to huddling together, 

 they are sheltered by the sides of the truck from the 

 draught and dust, and keep each other warm. Prize 

 rams and sheep travel in the guard's van, and often 

 become quite experts at railway journeying. They 

 jump in, lie down, and jump out with very little 

 persuasion. One celebrated old ram who lives on the 

 Great Western line, knows his own station and the 

 porter who usually detrains him as well as a dog 

 would, and when hailed by his railway friend, jumps 



