AN ORPHAN THING
When a stray dogfollows you about it is very embarrassing, but how much worse is your plight when you are followed about by a stray elephant! Mr. John Boyes, the well-known explorer and elephant hunter, relates how a wiia Afrioan elephant calf tried to adopt him. It was strange, because he had just "slaughtered its mother, not i knowing of the young one's existence. It soon came trumpeting. out of. the bush and walked right up to the hunter. "It wa3 so small that I could not shodt it," says Mr. Boyes, "and it at ones mad© frionds with n»o in.tho most remarkable manner, following mo into the camp,' where, for spin©, time, I could not get rid of it by any means. We had to keep it for the niglit. Tho next day we put it on tho'.traqk; of tlio herd again," and this tihio.it. ..*' disappeared, for which' I was very thankful." : . But thoro is something absurd and pathetic in the thought of a young elephant clamouring for the protection and petting wo offer a stray kitten. Surely the hunter regretted the shot , that made tho poor calf'1 an orphan!
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 15
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194AN ORPHAN THING Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 15
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