THE LIVING WORLD. 
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be asleep. Three of them, mounted upon their trained horses, will provoke a 
tusker to pursue one of their number while the other two follow close upon 
the heels of the elephant, changing offices if the elephant concludes to pursue 
one of the followers. As soon as the vanguard catches up to the elephant, one 
of them, throwing the reins to his companion, slips off of his horse and by a 
dexterous movement cuts the sinews of the elephant’s leg. 
While three aggageers were hunting an elephant, one of them dismounted 
just in time to find himself and horse both knocked down. The elephant 
stepped on the man’s thigh, but continued to pursue the white horse. A 
second aggageer, though on foot, successfully hamstrung the bull before it 
reached the cul de sac in the j ungle, where his own horse and the one mounted 
aggageer were penned up without possiblity of escape. A German wounded an 
elephant, which he found the next day partially devoured by a lion. Tracking 
the live game, he succeeded in mortally wounding the lion, but it did not die 
until it had charged upon the hunter, struck him with its paw on his head, 
seized him by the throat, and witnessed his dying agonies. A companion suc¬ 
ceeded in 
blowing out 
the lion’s 
brains, but 
not until the 
first hunter 
was beyond 
the need of 
mortal aid. 
The feral 
elephant, or 
domesti¬ 
cated ele- 
p h a n t , 
which has 
returned to 
a savage 
life, will still obey the orders of its former mahout or keeper. As another 
illustration of the elephant’s recollection of indignities, may be mentioned 
the fate of a practical joker, who, having given an elephant a cayenne 
sandwich, was, six weeks afterwards, deluged with dirty water. The elephant’s 
loyal service may be illustrated by an incident in the lives of two elephants em¬ 
ployed in bringing buckets of water from a stream. The larger animal robbed 
the other of his bucket, and while filling it was butted by the smaller elephant 
into mid-stream, and dropping the bucket, the rightful owner reclaimed it, and 
trotted away with his burden. A herd shows its knowledge of the ain J °f 
the hunters by placing the tuskers in the centre of a circle into which 
thev form themselves. A performing elephant, which had changed owners 
was grievously , wounded because it refused to trust an insecure platform. It 
stood the misunderstanding with only a groan of protest, and when its former 
owner was summoned, and bound up its wounds, it manifested the liveliest 
appreciation, embracing him with its trunk, and as soon as the platform had 
been strengthened, ascending it without waiting for the order. A rogue ele- 
GREAT BEAST of the coal period (Anihracotherium magnum). 
