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seemed to take effect. I first fired six shots with the two- 
grooved, which must have eventually proved mortal, but as 
yet he evinced no visible distress; after which I fired three 
shots at the same part with the Dutch six-pounder. Large 
tears now trickled from his eyes, which he slowly shut and 
opened; his colossal frame quivered convulsively, and, falling 
on his side,:he expired. The tusks of this elephant were 
beautifully arched, and were the heaviest, I had yet met with, 
averaging ninety pounds weight apiece. 
All this is cool—very! It is picturesque, not to say 
theatrical! Mr. Cummings, at this rate, might be educated 
into a good American Borderer, and some day “come up to 
the scratch” in a dwello, hand-to-claw with a Grisly Bear, 
after having exchanged the compliments of the morning with 
him beneath the cold shadows of the Rocky Mountain peaks! 
