OUR BACKYARD CIRCUS 117 



I Boy with 4x5 Grafiex and tripod. 



I Boy with case of odds and ends: ray filters, 



tools, oil, medicine case, extra spools. 

 I Boy carrying lunch. 

 My gim bearer. 

 Osa's gun bearer. 

 Boculy and Bukhari. 



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Each boy knows his duty. All withdraw to a 

 shady spot behind me while I am taking pictures, 

 but each one is on the alert, ready to bring me what- 

 ever case he has been carrying. Each case is num- 

 bered and I call for it by ntmiber. The gim bearers 

 crawl along the ground to get beside me in the event of 

 danger. 



As time went on we had a chance to study 

 individual elephants and their behaviors. One of 

 the most entertaining sights was always a female 

 elephant with her baby. An elephant is weirdly 

 proportioned in every direction, from its curling 

 trunk to its silly little tail. When its features are 

 reduced to miniature, as in the young animal, few 

 more comical sights can be seen. True, there are 

 young elephants in the zoo. But there the mothers 

 need show little of the assiduous care we so often 

 see in Africa. 



I remember coming on a nimiber of elephants 

 one broiling hot summer day on the plains. One 

 mother was accompanied by a baby that could have 



