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ELEPHANT LIFE IN ENGLAND 
taining a line true as the needle to the Pole, while 
his head and eye followed the movements of the 
passer-by. When quite neglected and alone, he tried 
to attract attention by dancing a kind of double-shuffle 
to the tune of the “ round-about.” 
Some one ventured to give a biscuit to the un- 
fortunate goat, its neighbour. The elephant dexter- 
ously twisted it from between the nibbling lips of the 
goat, and at once mounted guard to prevent any such 
diversion of its dues again. With ears cocked and 
eye alert, he held his trunk stretched out a few inches 
above the goat’s head, taking it away for a moment to 
receive offerings tendered elsewhere, but switching it 
back to the suspected quarter the moment the dainty 
was swallowed. 
Elephants suffer from nervousness, and occasion- 
ally from unreasoning panic, in England, just as 
they do in India. A windmill has been known to 
cause them to jib like a horse, and a large and very 
tame female Indian elephant at the Zoological Gardens 
actually died of fright, caused by a thunderstorm in 
the summer of 1855. She was out at exercise, when 
a violent and reverberant peal of thunder caused her 
to break away from her keeper. When caught she 
was found to be in a pitiable state of terror, shak- 
ing and trembling with violent spasmodic twitchings 
of the whole body. When led back to her stable 
she continued to show unmistakable symptoms of 
shock and collapse. In a short time she lay down, 
and after a few days died, in spite of the anxious 
