Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 453
. A GREEN MAN AND A GREEN BEAST. One season I got tired of African vegetables, andconcluded to grow some corn and asparagus in afield about half a mile from my house. I hadinclosed the land with a strong fence, and was onmy way to paint the fence green, with a view topreserving the wood and keeping… … trumpeting of an elephant, and saw a huge animalcharging at me, trunk in air. It is very uncom-mon for an elephant to attack a man, unprovoked ;but this one was a rogue, which, being drivenout from the herd, becomes the most vicious anddangerous of its kind. This I found out afterward, for, at the…
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