ELEPHANT LIFE IN ENGLAND 15 1 
and skilled attention which she received from the 
first. 
Minor instances of panic are not uncommon, but 
it is not often that the English-trained animal loses 
his head so as to be a source of danger to the public, 
as so frequently happens in India. This is partly 
because they seldom travel alone. In Mr. Sanger’s 
menagerie, for instance, the elephants are led when on 
the march by an old chestnut thoroughbred, known 
as the “jumping horse,” from his feat of clearing six 
five-barred gates in succession. It was when out at 
exercise without its usual companion that one of 
these elephants bolted at Highbury last September, 
and spent an afternoon in rambling about the suburbs 
of North London. The damage done by the animal 
was greatly exaggerated, so far as the writer could 
judge after a visit to the scene of its exploits. The 
elephant was drinking from a water-trough just 
opposite Finsbury Park, when it took fright at the 
sudden ringing of a tram-car bell. Pursued by boys 
and policemen, it ran through the Park and down a 
street near the lower entrance. Seeing a large wooden 
gate, like that which leads to its own yard at Totten- 
ham, it burst it open, and found itself in a labyrinth 
of small sheds and wooden stables at the back of 
some shops. Threading its way through these with 
wonderful agility, it ultimately arrived in a cul de sac 
in the yard at the back of a fishmonger’s shop. 
Having thrown off its pursuers by this manoeuvre, 
the elephant proceeded to make itself as much at 
