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Show When an Elephant Is Crazy. When we present the elephant in possession pos-session of Euch intellectual gifts as may be his, there has to be considered the Cas o. tha clephw-nt-f hnf, lfijr-mut.w a disease akin to frenzy is for a time bereft of its senses. It is only the mal that suffers from this affliction of insan ity, but every male is liable to it some time or other, and unfortunately may be attacked by it without warning of any kind. Some men of long experience of elephant ele-phant keeping say that the "must" condition con-dition is preceded by premonitory symptoms, symp-toms, and if taken in time may, by diet and treatment, be averted; but, without presuming to contradict those better informed in-formed people, I can aver that I have j known some cf them to be taken by sur- prise by the sudden "musting" of elephants ele-phants under their own immediate supervision. super-vision. Some elephants become demons of cruelty when "must," as, for example, a commissariat elephant that, during my time in Oudh, broke away from the Lucknow lines and went over a considerable consider-able tract of country, killing men, women wom-en and children wherever it found an opportunity op-portunity of doing so. Blackwood' Magazine. |