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MISCELLANEOUS WONDERS OF NATURE 
is refreshed by its being poured over him, 
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IS reuesiicu U/ , '"7", • ! hi* 
a few days, unless more than usually untractable in ‘ jj,e ^ 
he becomes completely tame, and is placed ivim 
of the domesticated troop. Sometimes, in ° pv'e'' 
eftectmilly to subdue them, the elephants are r 
sleep for a considerable time. - 
The anecdotes recording the sagacity, and **’,j,e5e. 'Ji'ii 
qualities of the elephant, arc numerous. Ot ^ 
following are selected as highly interesting. ^ 
elephant passing along the streets, put liis tru 
tailor’s shop, where several persons were at WorK' 
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them pricked the end of the trunk with his ”®fLtr®'- 
;ruuK wiui ii>= 
bc.ast passed on j but at the next dirty puddle -ini'll ^ 
with water, returned to the shop, and spLirl-''’o 
those who had offended him, spoiled i 
elephant who often passed « , 
a certain her 
Adsmeer, an 
bazar, or maiket, as he went by 
always received from her a mouthful ot green- t i 
he was seized with one of his periodica! fits o ^ 
his fetters, and, running through the market, ^ 
to flight, and, ‘ " 
tlie.^1' , 
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to flight, and, among others, this '"'oraau, ' j 
haste, forgot a little child she had brought witn 
animal recollecting the spot where his beneflict' , 
to sit, took up the infant gently on his trunly lii* 
in safety on a stall before a neighbouring- bo"' i;ille‘' |/ 
same place, another elephant,^ in his rriadnes^j^.jfofi i. 
C0T7UXC) or governor : the wife, witnessing t ^ ^ 
took her two children, and flung them before j,,. 
sayiiw: ‘'now you have destroyed their WTeq, j 
“as “well put an end to their lives and /' 
stantly stopped, relented, took the eldest fgA 
placed him on his neck, adopted him 1 °' 
piaceu Him on iiis hoi-r, ...... -- 1 hpi' . 
and never afterwards would permit any e ^ (jj? 
ana never auerwmus wuuiu ^ (IW 
mount him. — A painter was desirous of drawing 
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kept in the menagerie at Versailles, in ^’1 j Op 
attitude, namely, that of holding his trunk 
air, with his mouth open. The painter’s ’ hh 'f.VS 
keep tlie animal in this posture, threw fruit u i ^ 
» .1 1.J a 1 J finli * 1 tP ‘ir 
Keep tllC anUTiill m UlU publuit-j umevv 4 ^ 
but as the lad frequently deceived him, aWl 
only of throvviug the fruit, he g^w angry 
had known that the painter’s intention ot an jt 
(he cause of the affront thus offered, insf^* 
