Elephant dance (1937)

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A Trial But not a twig snapped, not a grass stirred, not a Drive creature of any kind did we see, not even a deer, all the way up to the cameras, where Daddy's red face peering out of his hide-out, like a Jack-in-the-box, was as frightening as anything ! Jungle Dogs! The poor Captain was a crestfallen man. He suspected that jungle dogs had been hunting through the preserve and cleared everything out. That afternoon we had proof of it. A beautiful sambhur hind came leaping out on to the road in front of the bungalow. Pie dogs were chasing it, leaping at its throat, on its flanks, trying to hamstring it. We chased the dogs off and the poor thing staggered to the ground where it lay, making pitiful sounds, struggling, but too exhausted to get on its feet again. Jungle dogs had chased it as far as the road and then the village dogs had caught on. We kept the dogs off and sent to fetch water for it, but by that time it was on its feet and staggering offinto the jungle again. Irawathaand When we came back to the bungalow late this Sabu becoming afternoon, Irawatha, the elephant, was having his d T m lesson He and Sabu were rehearsing Scene One. Everyone was laughing delightedly to see them. The big elephant was stealing the sugar cane out of Sabu's hand, raising his foot to be punished and squeaking, all to order. Sabu, his little brown body in nothing but a tight-fitting breech cloth, was a perfect thing of beauty. 74