Elephant dance (1937)

Page scan 000147 from Elephant dance

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
000147
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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day, and of the weddings and processions and fairs he will see — and fair women There are elephants that are born and reared in cap Elephant tivity, but these, I am told, never make the 'good' and Man elephants who work and obey and become the devoted life companions of their keepers that these wild ones do. For the essence of the relationship between the man and the animal is that the wild spirit has been broken — like a broken thing this strange, great heart in the queer great body clings for life to the only thing that is now left to it, its only security, this human who has taken it and made it his own. Viceroy Lodge, Karapur Camp. Dearest Monnie, I saw them building a shed to-day, down at the Cowsheds are bottom of the compound. What for? For our cows! necessary (We have about a dozen cows for our milk supply.) But why on earth, I wondered, should cows need a shed in a country like this? Don't tell me that all those hundreds of village cows that clutter up the road coming back at night from the jungle pastures to the villages are all put up in sheds? Why? Panther, of course; or tiger. A tiger took a cow just down the road from us only the other night. The tiger Bordie is baiting, to kill it, has taken twenty cows from one village alone in two months. 99