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mimioushy cleped the = Pigand Tinder-box.” When first 1 met the pantomime elephant T eannot remember, But I have often met him since, and more than once [ have been permitted to refresh one or both ends of hime with halfzand-half. e s the

only clephant of my acquaintance whose mag- nificence has turned out to o be hollow, £ Anatomically, he is simpley his viscera consist oY e almost entirely of two convenient handles, -

whereby his trunk and il may be made o swing., I knew an exceptionally talented fore- lees, who drew extra pay for his abiiitv to knock off w stage policeman’s helmet with the trunk, But he was subject to the ‘ | infirmitics of 2o, and i TananE e rLLean once, under an exceptional Lhurden of halfand halt, fell rumously - down a trap-door with all the front hall of - the structure and the Great Mocul, who was in the howdah, Also, T knew a hind- leos hut that 1s another story, | The Tate Albert Smith once knew a sponge-cake clephant - but that also is another story. There s morcover another story stll any numher ol ofher stories about the burglar-clephant, e is always the papers. e gets away from a menageric and shoves m the front ol a tuck-shop with his head ;3 after which he cats the tuck-shop, shutters and all, and voes Lo sleep on the ruins ol the house. Some- times he goes the THE BURGLAR, rounds of a market and samples thines in eeneral, He is very catholie in his tastes, and will toss off a scuttleful of coals or a suit of ready-made clothes with cqual freedom and good humour. [Te has also been known to break into a pill (actory, being afterwards uscdd as an advertisement for the

pills. The Hm‘ivt._\' for the Prevention e of Cruclty (o Animals scems Lo have SR / 7, SR N hadd no eans preventing the lr;_,n,l‘..:‘(/ MRS s St Q.-g_':fo;'g;" poerpetiation ol this form ol revenge. \ ' Flere, at the Zoo, the elephants '“ R TR | are much too respectably brought up T ) . . . - whe e o this sont of thing, Sull they are Cooal

not amudts, and will take thew beey and hacea in ali cood-fellowship, L cave no unprotected pocket where i cicars within the sweep of Jung Porchad's trunk. For “hacea he will chew and beer drink, if Hes, his keeper, but leave him for two minutes to his wicked devices. [Tere we have the elephant’s one little vice. Ie will hang about a STOKING. |

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