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A Marvellous Animal

ESPECTING the sa- object, dead or alive, to place under their gacity of the Ele-knees to prevent them sinking deeper in phant, and regarding the mud; and the driver was much conits intelligence and cerned lest the animal should have seized wisdom, countless Dr. Hooker and crushed him to death. But stories have been related. The Elephant is very faithful to his the driver himself ran no risk.

One of the most interesting cases of the sagacity of an elephant is that related of driver or keeper, and probably the female elephant belonging to a considers him as the leader of menagerie, which in April, 1874, was the herd. Dr. Hoooker says that attended for an illness at Tenbury, in an elephant which he was riding England, by Mr. Turley, a local chemist. in India became so deeply When Mr. Turley happened, in May, 1879, bogged that he remained stuck to be standing at his shop door as the fast till next day, when he was menagerie passed through the town on a extricated by men with ropes. return visit, he was astonished to find that Under such circumstances, ele- the elephant insisted on saluting him by phants will seize with their trunks any placing her trunk in his hand, and by A Clofs Xer stattgart W.Werkmeis