Show aby elephant tear alice it incredible that so emall and harmless an animal as a mouse is ablo to frighten an elephant almost oat of bis senses one little mouse in the hay on which they are feeding will stampede an entire herd in their native land there are little animals known as chacanias cha canas which feed on a small sour berry of which elephants are very fond they livo in settlements something after the manner of prairie dogs under the berry bushes when feeding tho elephants trample the little towns and tho chacanias cha canas in their fright run up the tubes of the elephants trunks their long sharp claws catch in the flesh and they cannot be ejected the more violently the monster blow through its coiled trunk the more firmly the hooked claws of the little animal become embedded imbedded im in the flesh inflammation and death are tho result in captivity the elephants think they are in danger of the deadly chacanias cha canas when they see a mouse kow york sun |