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We received a wild-caught half-grown female by pur- 

 chase, in 1913, from Southern Rhodesia and six months 

 after her arrival she could be ridden anywhere in the 

 grounds. Her intelligence is well developed and her 



Fig. 43. — Driven to Captivity. 



Fig. 44. — Driven to Captivity. 



perceptions keen. A couple of months after her arrival 

 she picked up the art of begging from the public and 

 soon became an adept at it, pushing her companion — 

 a full-grown Indian Elephant — out of the way in her 

 eagerness and anxiety to appropriate the " tit-bits." 



