SAVED BY AN ELEPHANT.
There is an elephant who deserves a medal for saving a little girl’s life. His name is Babylon, and his praiseworthy act is thus chronicled by the Tribune :— • The girl, ten years old, is a sister of one of the men connected with the show, and had been accustomed to play with the elephants. She was thus engaged one morning when she stepped within reach of a bear, known
as Growler, which was chained near by. He chanced to be in an ugly mood and seized the girl. * Another moment and she would have been killed, but Babylon brought his trunk down on the bear’s bead with crushing force The girl dropped to the giound in a faint, and the elephant picked her up and placed her out of reach of the bear. * Meantime the attendants, who had heard the girl scream, came running to the rescue, but too late to rob Babylon of his honours as a life-saver.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue V, 24 July 1897, Page 159
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163SAVED BY AN ELEPHANT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue V, 24 July 1897, Page 159
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