ELEPHANT. 
a quick fenfe of glory. In India, they were once 
employed in the launching of fhips : one was di¬ 
rected to force a very large veffel into the water i 
the work proved fuperior to his ftrength : his maf- 
ter, with a farcaftic tone, bid the keeper take away 
this lazy bead and bring another: the poor animal 
inftantly repeated his efforts, fractured his fcull, 
and died on the fpot In Belli , an Elephant paf* 
fing along the ftreets, put his trunk into a taylor’s 
fhop, where feveral people were at work; one of 
them pricked the end with his needle: the bead 
palTed on, but in the next dirty puddle filled his 
trunk with water, returned to the fhop, and fpurt- 
ing every drop among the people who had offended 
him, fpoilt their work. 
An Elephant in Adfmeer , which often paffed 
through the Bazar or Market, as he went by a 
certain herb-woman, always received from her a 
mouthfull of greens : at length he was feized with 
one of his periodical fits of rage, broke his fetters, 
and running through the market, put the crowd to 
flight among others, this woman, w ? ho in hade, 
forgot a little child fhe had brought with her. The 
animal recolle&ing the fpot where his benefa&refs 
was wont to fit, took up the infant gently in his 
trunk and placed it in fafety on a flail before a 
neighboring houfe. 
Another, in his madnefs, killed his Comae or Go¬ 
vernor : the wife feeing the misfortune, took her 
two children and flung them before the Elephant, 
faying, Now you have deftroyed their father, you may 
as well put an end to their lives and mine . It in- 
* Ludolpb. Com. in hijl. JEthiop. 147. 
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