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such a shout that the elephant was scared, 
and ran back to its companions. Then, all 
the three came rushing towards the soldier, 
bending and breaking everything before them. 
But fear lent the soldier wings, and he ran so 
fast that he soon left them behind him. Un- 
fortunately he had left his jacket behind him 
too, with all his cocoa nuts in it; and he 
would have lost his dinner if he had not come 
upon another fruit that did as well. 
This was the fruit of the jack tree, that is 
so large it weighs as much as seventy pounds; 
and contains more than two hundred seeds, or 
nuts, that are a little like chestnuts. The 
natives of Ceylon use it for food, cutting it 
in slices, and frying it in oU, or else eating it 
raw. 
The soldier tried to make a fire by rubbing 
two pieces of stick together ; but he rubbed a 
long time, and could not get a spark. So he 
loaded himself with jack fruit, and went on in 
better spirits at having found such an abundant 
supply of food. But juflt at this minute he 
heard a loud grunting, and found that he was 
almost in the midst of a herd of wild boars ! 
The wild boars are very ferocious animals ; 
