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Show \ Miner I\1iner I 1iner Embarrassed EmbarrassedWhen EmbarrassedWhen When Big Elephant ElephantTumbles ElephantTumbles Tumbles Down ShaftMONTREAL Shaft ShaftMONTREAL MONTREAL . - - Mining in inthe inthe inthe the jungle has its peculiar , often oftenrather oftenrather oftenrather rather heavy , embarrassments embarrassmentsThere embarrassmentsThere embarrassmentsThere There is , . for example c"Cample cCample " , the case caseof caseof caseof of a British Bntish mining engineer engmeer rJend friend rJendof friendof ! friendof of Dr . . Frank D Adam . , emerItus emerItusprofessor emeritusprofessor emeritusprofessor professor of geology at McGill uni urn- urn uni- university urnverslty university - versity verslty . This ThlS engineer engmeer runs a tin tm mine in inMalaya inMalaya inMalaya Malaya , just below the SIamese SIameseboundary Siameseboundary Siameseboundary boundary IDsmmersClunesework- IDsmmersClunesework HisminersChinesework- HisminersChinesework IDsmmersCluneseworkmen HisminersChineseworkmen His mmers , Chinese work workmen - men , have been considerably both both- bothered bothered - . ered , , because an uncommonly huge hugecrocod hugecrocodile hugecrocodile crocod crocodile e swam up the creek to totheU totheir totheir theU their ' settlement . , and at the same sametime sametime sametime time a leopard has been snarlmg snarling snarlmgand snarlingand snarlingand and stealing live l1ve stock ! from rom the theland theland theland land sIdeFall sideFall side sideFall Fall Is Fatal rata1 rata1Then FatalThen FatalThen Then one night mght an elephant wan wan- wandert.d wandert.d wandered - dered dert.d dertd . into mto camp and fell down the themme themine themine mme mine shaft . . The fall killed kllled him , . of ofcourse ofcourse ofcourse course Only , the engineer engmeer wrote wroteto wroteto wroteto to Doctor Adams , he didn't didnt dldn't dldnt ' qwte quite qwteknow quiteknow quiteknow know what to do about it it . . |