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THE ELEPHANT. 
called. They will also perform particular acts 
upon the promise of special rewards, such aS 
arrack or sweetmeats ; and it is very danger- 
ous to neglect completing the bargain when 
the work is finished. 
The story of the elephant at Delhi, who 
half-drowned an unlucky tailor with water 
from his trunk, because the man had pricked 
him with his needle instead of giving him an 
apple, is too well known to need repeating- 
Lieutenant Shipp relates that, to try the ino- 
mory of one of these animals, he gave him ® 
large quantity of Cayenne pepper between 
some bread. The beast was much irritated a*- 
the deception : and, about six weeks afterwards^ 
when the unsuspecting joker went to fondlo 
him, he submitted very quietly to his caresses? 
but finished with drenching his persecutor fronr 
head to foot with dirty water. — An elephan*^' 
driver, having had a cocoa-nut given to him? 
struck it, out of wantonness, against the eln' 
