Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 639
and the towering trunkbetween them gave the head a fiendish look notoften found outside of Hades. The other ele-phants took up the trumpeting, and the uproarwas appalling. My rifle was at my shoulder from the secondthe brute began his charge, and the instant thathe hove in sight, I fired both… … AS THEY MARCHED ALONG, THEY PASSED THROUGH A GROVE OF THORN-TREES I dont care how many elephants a man mayhave encountered, while he is sneaking upon hisgame, a feeling of uneasiness steals over him un-til the critical moment arrives; then things hap-pen so quickly and his brain works so…
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