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was a very fine female, with the most beau¬ 
tiful skin I ever saw.’ ” 
“I should say that elephant was rather 
inconveniently interested in the sport,” re¬ 
marked Sidney. “ I should rather have one 
who would he contented to do as he was 
told. But I should think the elephants 
themselves would be likely to suffer. Their 
trunks hang down directly in the way.” 
“ They are aware of that; and, as soon as 
they perceive the neighbourhood of a tiger, 
they raise their trunks high in the air, or 
else roll them up and pack them into a 
very small compass .between their tusks. It 
sometimes happens that a tiger holder than 
ordinary will spring upon the back of an 
elephant and endeavour by main force to 
bring him to the ground.—in which he some¬ 
times succeeds. Usually, however, the ele¬ 
phant is able to shake him off,—in which 
case he either crushes him to death by 
kneeling on him, or gives him a kick, 
which breaks half his ribs and sends him 
flying perhaps twenty paces. 
“But the tiger is often destroyed in a 
much less ostentatious manner. Some¬ 
times it is killed by means of a poisoned 
