Show SIGHT OF DEAD ELEPHANT ROBBED HUNTER OF NERVE there are a few big game hunters in new york men who travel tar far into foreign wilds every year or two and risk their lives hunting elephants tl gers and lions says the new york tribune it is a pastime as expensive as it is dangerous yet there is a fascination about it that is seldom satisfied As a rule the real hunters of big game are modest about their exploits in tact fact they seldom mention them ex capt to each other one man whose specialty has always been elephants met a fellow whose supreme joy in life Is to send the leaden burden of an express rifle into the shining coats of man eating tigers I 1 hear you had a narrow escape from a mad tusker said the tiger hunter tell me about it nothing much to tell returned the other modestly it was not the fault of the gun and I 1 aimed true enough but there is no telling how to kill a mad elephant for sure this one v not kill hill and came at me like an ex press train well I 1 owe my life to a black man but its it s the last time you ve biad ad enough of elephant hunting then not 0 on account of my narrow es cape however said the other it was something that hat happened when I 1 was coming over on the steamer I 1 cannot get the horror of those moments in the jungle out of my head and occasionally suffer er from night mare in which a score of elephants charge on me and I 1 in trampled into a grease spot I 1 decided that a long ocean voyage would clear the cobwebs out of my muddled head and booked a passage on the colorado from hull farly one morning I 1 was waked from a most terrible nightmare by a noise on deck I 1 turned out of my bunk to investigate looking out of the porthole the first thing I 1 saw was the bode bod ot an elephant floating on the surface a few rods away from the ship it was quite too much tor for my dream strained nerves and I 1 keeled over im afraid my elephant hunting days are over for I 1 ive ve quite lost my nerve and the elephant alongside ques cloned the tiger hunter was that just part of your nightmare 7 9 no strange as it may seem the elephant was real as we learned after ward if it was the decomposing car cass ot of jingo the pet of the london zoo they were shipping him to new lork on the georgia georgic you remember when he died from a broken heart and they buried him at sea he would not stay buried however and floated to the surface and our ship overtook him |