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phant’s head, to break it. Next day, as the 
animal passed along the street, seeing some 
cocoa-nuts exposed for sale, he took up one of 
them with his trunk, and beat it about the head 
of the driver till he had killed him outright. — 
In the progress of the Vizier of Oude to meet 
Lord Cornwallis, a male baggage elephant, car- 
rying a number of people on his back, was sud- 
denly irritated by his mahout, who struck him 
violently with his hawkuss. The enraged beast 
instantly pulled him from his seat, held him 
Up by his trunk in a way which rendered es- 
cape impossible, and then dashed him to 
pieces. — It is related that Pidcock, to whom 
the Exeter Change menagerie formerly be- 
longed, had for some years been accustomed 
to treat himself and his elephant in the even- 
ing with a glass of spirits, for which the ani- 
*nal regularly looked. Pidcock had invariably 
Siven the elephant the first glass out of the 
bottle, till one night he exclaimed, “You 
