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Elephant and Young
(31) emitting a peculiar grunting noise. This the dismay of her keeper, who asserted was her recognition of Mr. Turley's atten- that had it been anyone but a friend she tions and kindness of five years before, had so laid hold of she would have crushed that gentleman not having seen the ani- his limbs to atoms instead of quietly mal once during the interval. As a fur- pressing him." ther proof of the animal's accurate mem- On visiting the menagerie in the even ory of all the circumstances of her former ing, the elephant, again recognizing her visit, it may be added that in May, 1881, medical friend, lifted him off his feet with the elephant again visited Tenbury. The her trunk, and "trumpted" in a very following is the newspaper account- significant manner. At the same time verified in a letter to me from Mr. Turley she called his attention to her fore-leg, -of what took place: with which Mr. Turley's previous treat- "REMARKABLE SAGACITY OF AN ELE- ment had had no concern. The keeper PHANT.-On Wednesday, Bostock's and told Mr. Turley that, some months pre- Wombell's Menagerie visited Tenbury. viously, the leg in question had been hurt, This company came to this town some and that a veterinary surgeon had used two years ago, when the elephant, jour- a lancet to give the animal relief. This neying down Teme Street, recognized Mr. surgical treatment exasperated the ele- Turley, chemist, who had cured her of phant so much that she struck at the veta most dangerous attack of colic, brought erinary surgeon with her trunk when he on by drinking cold water. Strange to subsequently approached her. Her desire say, immediately the elephant caught to draw Mr. Turley's attention to the sight of Mr. Turley, she began at once to fore-leg was evidently an indication of evince her pleasure at seeing her pre- her preference for, and her greater faith server, and warmly embraced him by in, the treatment to which he had subfolding her trunk round his legs, rather to jected his elephant-patient.
