Show ELEPHANTS Bk BATHING TIlING beyond the in cleaner mater hater by comparion com parron a bevy of elephants are enjoying their morning bath and they do enjoy it m deed see bee how they roll away like sa so many porpoises right light under the flood and leave the mahouts shouting I 1 tind and grouping with their feet for the unstable ble black islands which after a time hiie anso up above e the surface look aith at the L great es they blow up tip over their blacks blac ks and listen to the deep breath of pleasure or the shrill flourish of delight with which they lie down on the sand while their att attendants enda ants 1 knead then them all over thee great creatures are so sagacious I 1 so seh sen 3 bitne to kindness that ey even n in in their wild state I 1 cannot c feel any sympathy fo fop those who delight in in killin 1 illing killings gr atheni aid call it sport port but these elephant fond as I 1 anil ani of them are it must bo b adini a limited aed dangerous an berous playmates pla mates in our camp there were nvere no less than han linw nine leonies loonies lo onies 11 or murderers beasts which have killed their mahouts ma houts or other 1 attendants one huge criminal with a speckled kled forehead md proboscis 13 is guilty of the murder of no less than three unfortunate natives the magnia ni i dicent mild monster aich which belonged to sir hugh wheeler was larned carried off by the nana isina Is ina and was delivered up to us by the rajah of died a few days ago immediately after carrying carrig carr mg 11 some officers to church ile he was a fine courageous creature and his bis trunk and forehead bore marks of the claws of afi more thin than one tiger which had charge charged him and then been trampled to pulp by his ponderous feet his weakness was fine french rolls which he swallowed ia as an alderman w would take Cockle pills and the twinkle of his eye as lie ha gulped the loaf down dow n and g ga a A e a genela antle sig sigh h out of his proboscis the sybarite I 1 used to take great delecta tion lion I 1 in observing the creatures at the tha 1 laih ah p r the n r i A er ah bh b flows by byc cur ir camp they came down in in hies files trum lenng gaily in in anticipations anticipation A of the treat and floundering into the waters of the tl a Goom tcp tee like so many portly lers enjoying the pea soup of ostend cach I 1 ich takes a long deep drink putting his is proboscis into the water and then discharging the contents of it when hll fill ed b by action suction uc tion into his hia cavernous maw having thus filled up a wrinkle or two in in his side he deposits himself bod ilyin the astrea stream in so that one side lies out of the water and the tip of his proboscis if H 1 kept ept above the surface for the air on this exposed island the mahouts labor diligently washing the he beast and rubbing bill him with hard brushes cleaning his ears kneading and him pachyderm pach deim emits little squeals squeaks of satisfaction sails acolon when one side ide is is done the elephant turns on the other and he ha is very angry indeed if he does not get his full share of manipulation william russell |