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carcfully with her trunk, and plant hin on her neck @ then gentle soul! - she will pass him up the whip. Have I, or have 1 not, detected on these occasions @ cerbain twinkle of the cve, and a certain playiul fourish of that whip? 1 believe T have. “ere, take ity my [riend,” Suffa Culh might he saving, “take i, and play with 1t as much as vou like. It scems to please vou, and it doesn’t hurt e But ] began on o you with

it—-" and she chuckles TN quictlv. But she will obey the crack of that whip,

and presently kneel down

as gently as oyou please

for Tles to ahight. More-

over, on request, she will raase her volee (and her trunk) and trumpet most tremendously. I fear that the repetition of this sort of thing has

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madeSuffa Culliunwarrantably vaun of her voiece. Now, ther winter shutung inmay preserve these elephants from colds, and mayv preserve private property from the cle- phants; but 1t deprives them of exercise. I must make a suggestion ol somc sort on behall of these clephants when next 1 osee Tles —some means of - healthy recrcation and “keep- e form 7 something, in fact, in the way of o gymnasium. 1 odo not go so [ar as Lo recommend the horizontal bar in Jung Perchad’s casc -1t would come expensive in bars, But they all have tastes which would lead them to prefer a bar CUL 1A CULLL CHUGH 1 ol some sort, even with nothing to drink on it ven the swimming bath at the back, whercein is found much cool refrestunent dwring summer, 15 Lugely out of the question in winter. Possible rheumatisin and the chance ol hemg frozen in makes that delectable pond uscless til springs A clephant has wogreat fondness for wallowing in water, althougl, whether entirely rom motives of - cleanlines: may be disputed, since on occasion he prefer. @ deposit ol soft mud s a0 very proper and

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