| Show A PRETTY STORY that sprang up between alion anil a deer the bison of india has never been kept long in captivity except in tha case oi one bull which is now in the possession of his highness tha mahara jah of mysore how this bull came to survive waca eo many of his fellows had succumbed is a very pretty story it is related by the author of gold sport and coffee planting in mysore who took it down from the lips of his neighbor mr park who captured the animal and was knowing to all the details of the story when captured the bull was supposed to be about three days old A week afterwards a young doe pursued by jungle dogs ran into a laborers cottage and was made a prisoner it was decided to keep the deer as a companion for the bison and the two were accordingly kept together though never hut up they were fed on milk and then allowed to graze and soon became inseparable they were fed at twelve and at four in the afternoon and seemed to know their feeding time exactly when the bison was two years old it was thought time to fit him with a cosa rope he was tied to a tree his nose bored and he was liberated he ran all about the grounds and then for the first and only time he was heard to bellow after this he was regularly led out to graze the would sometimes remain behind but seemed to have no difficulty in finding him but putting her nose to catch the scant start at once in the right direction the bison had no such power and if ever he missed his companion would go wandering about till he found her when the bull was terao years old he was presented to tho maharajah mah arajah and was sent off to the nearest railway station some sixty miles away the doe soon noticed his absence held up her nose as usual got the direction and when the bull was five or six miles away she overtook him he showed the moat extreme delight and the two traveled happily together to mysore mr park saw the bull in 1891 and I 1 two or three years afterwards mr elliot was glad to learn that the bison and the deer were still inseparable companions and both in excellent health he believes that the bull would long ago have pined away and died but for the society of the doe |
