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coming out into the open, alone. Almost trembling Huge we watched him come down the bank, and step into Tusker the river. He was crossing it!
Quickly cameras clicked and whirred, but only for a moment. Then tall rushes and low willows hid him. Making for the forest behind us, he disappeared. Then just birds again, and no sound from behind where the drive was supposed to be going on. Once we heard the bugle and shots and yelling, but then all faded away again. So we knew something was going wrong. Apparently everything had been going beautifully — all the wild herd rushing for the run, the Jemadar driving on one wing, Muthanna on the other, Captain Fremlin in the centre — when suddenly everything happened at once. Two big cows with calves turned and broke through the beaters who tumbled every which way. And out of the bushes, Upsets a monstrous tusker came charging straight at Fremlin. ™e Drive He gave him a shot, and saw the elephant lurch drunkenly from the shock.
The tusker was charging not Fremlin's cow but the tame tusker behind him. But for Fremlin's lucky shot, the wild tusker would have killed the tame one and his mahout, and then turned on the beaters. Muthanna The Beaters says the beaters are all heroes. The forest officers with are Heroes them have shot-guns. As the beaters drive, the foresters keep their eyes on the wild tuskers. If one shows signs of slackening, they give him a volley of shot
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