Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 03/31/1899.
    No animal will face danger more readily, at man’s bidding than the elephant. As an instance, take the following incident, which recently occured in India. A small female elephant was charged by a buffalo in high grass, and her rider in the hurry of the moment, and perhaps owing to the sudden stopping of the elephant, fired an explosive shell from his rifle, not into the buffalo, but into the elephant’s shoulder. The wound was so severe that it had not healed a year later. Yet the elephant stood firm, although it was gored by the buffalo, which was then killed by another gun. What is even more strange is that the elephant was not nervous of gun reports afterward.
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