| Show Consoled Her Grief I A remarkably intelligent elephant working on a nex bridge in Ceylon FOSJUTTa Jla7a lch > d ayoung one to whom she was perfectly de rated It died and the became Inconsolable In-consolable Formerly the gentlest of creatures she grew Irritable and even dangerous One mornlnphe broke the chain which confined her and escaped into the forest One night abcut ten days after her escape the officer who had been in charge of her went out to lie In wait for l > ears at a pond in a jungle at some distance As he and his native attendant were returning early In tile mornIng morn-Ing thu native silently nudged him mood they saw in the dim cray light anilepuant wills her calf making their way toward camp They both sprang behind treo and when tbe elephants had passed the native It t f1 as lcl Insisted Uiat the oldirone I was their old friend When they reached the camp they found that the truant had Indeed In-deed returned aud bowl gone from one person to another touching each with her trunk as if she were exhibiting her aJonteJ child which she load evidently begged borrowed bor-rowed or stolen during her absence ab-sence aHer good temper and usual docility docil-ity returned at once and her owner blessed the good fortune which enabled en-abled her to steal a child |
