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THE ELEPHANT. 
animal for her keeper was very great. In 
1823 her last keeper succeeded another who 
had been with her for eight or ten years : 
■when first placed under his charge, she was 
for some time intractable, evidently feeling 
the loss of her former friend ; but she gra- 
dually became obedient and attached, and 
would cry after him whenever he was absent 
more than a few hours. 
Elephants are said to be extremely suscep- 
tible of the power of music. Without insist- 
ing on the story of Suetonius, who relates 
that the Emperor Domitian had a troop of 
elephants trained to dance to music, and that 
one of them, who had been beaten for not 
being perfect in his lesson, was seen the fol- 
lowing night in a meadow practising it by 
himself; we may observe that the assertion seemS 
to be proved by some curious experiments 
made about thirty years ago at Paris. . A band 
of music was placed in a gallery running round 
