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On returning a strange spectacle met his view. The 

 pony was sitting on the ground, erect, after the manner 

 of a biped. Its head was in the air, its hind legs were 

 extended horizontally, its fore legs were waving im- 

 potently up and down. The ant-bear had carved its 

 way deep into the bowels of the earth, gradually but 

 relentlessly dragging the hapless pony down until its 

 posterior parts hermetically sealed up the burrow. It 

 was, in fact, only the smallness of the latter which pre- 

 vented the animal from being completely buried. 

 Eventually, however, the rein snapped, and the pony 

 was thus released from a durance probably unique in 

 equine experience." 



Here is a thrilling story of an elephant with -six 

 ears and three trunks. It is told by Mr. Broadwood 

 Johnson in the record of his travels in Africa. 1 

 " Elephant-hunting is no light sport, needing all the 

 skill and nerve and endurance a man possesses. A 

 native hunter, eng'aged by the king, once told me in 

 Kabarole of a thrilling experience he had just passed 

 through. He had come unexpectedly on the body of 

 an elephant, which he thought must have been wounded 

 by some other hunter and have fallen down dead from 

 exhaustion. The appearance of it amazed him very 

 much, as it had six ears and three trunks ! Having 

 carefully observed it, he advanced with his knife drawn 

 to operate upon the tusks. To his intense amazement 

 and horror the beast got up. The hunter threw himself 

 flat in the long grass, his heart going pit-a-pat -pat 

 in fear of discovery, as he graphically described it, 

 all in a quiver of excitement at the bare recollection 

 of it. The elephant seized the rifle which was being 

 See Bibliography, 5. 



