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then swaying it backwards and forwards, by pushing it 
with their foreheads, they watched the opportunity when 
it was in full swing to raise their fore-feet against the 
stem, and bear it down to the ground. Then tearing off 
the festoons of climbing plants, and trampling down the 
smaller branches and brushwood, they pitched them with 
their tusks, piling them into heaps along the side of the 
fence. 
Amongst the last that was secured was the solitary 
individual belonging to the fugitive herd. When they 
attempted to drag him backwards from the tree near 
which he was noosed, he laid hold of it with his trunk 
and lay down on his side immoveable. The temple 
tusker and another were ordered up to assist, and it re- 
quired the combined efforts of the three elephants to 
