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This articlo originally appeared in the maga- zine "Sport Afield,” to which acknowledgment is made.
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The went rolled off in
of clothing. I looked
The author with a large animal brought down during one hunting expeditions,
of his
WILM
and the sudden jolts were
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When Warner Bros., who talking pictures to the world, an MR. J. F. RICHMOND, the author of this
off all of the guns with them. Sup- flaming brands dampened and fick Prof. Max Rinhardt to produce article, is attached to the Socony-Vacuum and silence. The coolies bad carried endured in silence. One by one the nounced that hey had persunted Latest comedy, "A Shakespeare's - Corporation in Hongkong, and recently left the pose the mother elephant Fnti- crel out and the head tracker bor- gute, fortunately, has at least one rowed my lamp again to light the
Jugen and Midsummer Night's Dream," they Colony on leave to hunt big game in the wilds blessing: it takes the jump not only way around and, over
out of muscles but out of nerves as stumps, holes and rocks. The two-declared that the resultant picture wheeled contraption in which we would be the finest ever filmed. of Canada. Mr. Richmond is a big-garne hunter well
The coolics returned and we start rode pitched and rolled like a ship That this promise has been full-
The Jungle is no place at sta of considerable note, and has accompanied again
for travellers, after durk; tripping terrific as a distraction, the bullcarted, everyone who has been several expeditions.
and falling we struggled through the behind pressed too close in the dark-gorgeously fantastic production at our ships and mess and continually threatened to the King's Theatre agrees. The Blm thickets, bamping
And from is a revelation of the possibilities of and the rear enmo the wailing of the motion pictures. Here is art in its
finest sense, Here thorny vines
is the sheer stepping in holes and continually impate us on its tongue. entangled lay
With the rain settled down to beauty of fantasy, where Imagina- brusher. Finally, just before reach little elephant! ing the carts, we had to wnde neraNE
The cart drivers had steady paar that continued through- tion has its fullest play. Yet here is entertainment, for all the two creeks. torches faring brightly and we pre- out the night, we reached the motor 100, maturely heaved sighs of relief. At ear at 10 o'clock and the little cle- down-to-earth, side splitting humour RIVEN by uncontrollable fear 1. passed off
and was followed by sight at smell of the elephant the phant, unaidesi, climbed into the back of the "Dream" has been retained fled for ever and simultanemm- renetion in the form of violent per blacks went wild and tried to as if he was in big hurry for and spectators pause for a moment were. With three in their laughter to thrill at the ly with gaining it came the impulse; spiration,
stampede, rearing and sourting, bel- chow as Stop: 1.de! Don't move! If you streams and literally saturated every towing and endangering life and natives to hold him and the guns drama or marvel at the beauty of limb of all who came near with their we started for the village and when spectacles. Through it all in heart do you will make a noise or shake trend the brush and the elephant will Petri and shecovered that he was in hoofs and horns. Seized with a new w arrived we had the satisfaction the glorious music of Mendelssohn, catch you! froze in my tracks the same soaked condition.
frenzy of fear Jumbo proceeded to of knowing that the events of the especially arranged for this produc- previous shealing and day had been an exciting and unex- tion by the famous Viennese com- and after a momers, not having been caught yet, began reloading The POTOGRAPHS were taken and outdo a
then the coolies cut off the feet trumpeting efforts. Everybody shout. pected, even more so, than any pip poser, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Nearly every detail made and played by a fine symphony of 1201 use; dream.
Reinhardt, genius of the full oľ jungle around
of those adventures chestra: under Pietri's expert directions. By el at yelled! It
loaded the day one
a new page in could neither the sands of screamings trumpeting the time this work was finished it Juntin
or towed which all hunters hope to expert state, has written elephants crashing and milling about was 4 o'clock and toward the end aboard one of the enrts
and behind one and coclics had to be enve-provided they live through it the history of motion pictures. The There in the thickets; but by the time I an elephant began to scream
That settled, to tell the tale. And for good men grent producer had an equally great Havre, Lunden. Ilull,
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And then it rained. a deluge of the dny memorable because he ranks a play for the wedding ceremony of ever the Duke of Athens and his Amn- the clarity of ing nental processes minister the death shot to the rag-
wood Lost in the falling 1:1 bucketfulla. among the smallest elephants
zonian bride, Running after the receding sounds ing beast. As we approached the icewater
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the underbrush; and then thought goras finale. Ami consideration resumed awny-slowly.
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First. what
Owing to the 12 hour day of the time Topics
than
it was new inte afternoon I was so surprised to find and the jungle intercepted the stunts;
much more
one ing rays of the descending san so minute had elapsed since I fired the that the gloom of approaching even- first shot that I found myself listen- ing was already noticeable. Picking to the ticking of my watch. our way through the onze of brush, The guide and 1 with two or vines, brinbeos, palins, glant trees three trackers hurried on along the and fallen logs we approached the bloody trail for perhaps 200 yards, noise slowly and carefully, The up! the jungle ahead of us echoing with roar was incredibly terrifying, enn- the terrible screams of crashing of tinuous, unceasing screams and tre elephants. Then in a twinkling, the mendous roars vibrate the very at- unar suddenly ceased and there mosphere and at times deep, throaty Was absolute silence. We stopped. grawls added a strange note. Sure
"Elephant bad, mauvais, danger, the elephant must be in its inst is standing by ous, quiet very bad," Pietri said and throes and a tiger went through a pantomime of stand waiting for the last gasp before ing quietly behind a bush and sud- commencing to feed on the eareass If it wasn't so thick a man could dealy charging.
A little and have a chance! We waited and listened, then fell see
whispered discussion of what With the afternoon's hair-raising ex- into n had occurred which was not at all periences still fresh it looked like complete or clear because of our fools asking for trouble and it re finally quired a fereely conscions effort to diculties and language
And control my! Slendy started back to find the first elephant remain
unaware
and verify that he had been killed nerves. Suddenly, 15 feet away, we Petri hul fired two "shots myself-sw-the elephant, trunk upraisel five, and the head tracker one shot screaming like a crazy locomotive, with a shotgun loaded with lethal and running straight for us!
"Ba-bee Pictri shricked. balls. This shot had been fired by
Dropping his rifle on the ground, the head tracker, in hiding with the other coolies so close that he could he dashed forward and seized the
of beast by the tail as it turned round! see me shooting and their proximity, at an elephant that and desperately tried to escape! passed him and charged me on the Dashing, up I grabbed the elephant and joined in the un- side or from behind. I can remem- by one ear ber hearing the shotgun but cannot earthly yells for the coolies to come!
But I didn't drop my pluce this shot in the sequence of and help.
We had captured a baby ele events, Pietri' was surprised that I gun! Jind fired at a second elephant and phant and as the shrieks, screams, thought it must have been the same roars and yells rose, to the high- us the one wounded by the tracker; est heights of bedlam my overwork- apparently he accounted for all of el nervous system could hear mother my shots as having been fired at elephants charging to the rescue the first elephant as he, too, had from every direction. Up came the been distracted from the first beast coolies, yelling and laughing to see by the appearance of a second cle- Pietri being towed round in a circle phant also but in another direction and plowing up the earth with his from my second antagonist. Many heels while I hung onto the ear and details of the encounter were never steered, and in a trice they cut some fellow Was explained or reconciled to my satin- vines and the little fuction owing to the limitation of securely fastened.
Obviously this baby elephant wax speech imposed by the gulle's lack
having been of English and my own worse know the reason for our
that it re- charged so desperately ledge of French.
We left the trail we had been quired gunfire to kill or turn-three following and. in heading straight different beasts, the first of which shot was fir- for the scene of the shooting, dis- charged even before covered another trail also spattered ed. This reflection made the screami as an exceedingly with blood. This surprised and up iar infant loom set the guide considerably and he dangerous addition to our party and; went on the alert instantly, con- I had no desire to godfather an ele-- But Pietri wanted tinually repeating the word "langer- phant anyhow. ous" as we cast about and examin-hin and as the little fellow became ed the signs. This trail proved that comparatively calm and quiet after two elephants had been wounded and struggling vainly for a few minutes:
take him back tu also coincided with my vague idea we decided
Recognizing the fact that of the direction taken by my second camp. elephant. Satisfled that this wound- escape was impossible Jumbo accept- ed beast also had run some distance ed the situation with common sense and was not in the immediate vicin- and proceeded immediately to make A few our better, nequaintance by smelling ity we resumed our search.
cach ne In turn minutes later I apled a great grey and butting pile, the first elephant lying stone Shortly we hended for camp as the dead with his head hard against a day was nearly done and, with n around his neck, big tree.
vine loosely tied The beast was big male men- the little elephant followed like a and caused very Buring 9 deet 0% inches at the dog on a leash" shoulder and had been killed by five little trouble other than a few ob- bullets as already explained. Pietri streperous moments and the annoy- estimated the animal's age at over ance of his everlasting screaming 100 years.
We located the empty and roaring which increased notice- cartridge cases and found that the ably after it decante dark. Carcass lay 16 yards from where the Thin Inky blackness we Inst glow of sunset. Inded had been shooting. huge feet had trampled the ground stumbled onward uncertain of our The narrow beam of light to within five short paces of Pietri's course. position and seven of mine. Pro from the hunting lamp slapped on Jecting the length of the head and my head assisted my own steps very but the others had a trunk beyond the foot-prints made considerably
Finally we entered it apparent that the elephant had hard time. charged almost within touching dis glade from which a few stars could tance of Pietri'a ride barrel. before be seen shining through flying clouds turning-entirely too close for com- and bearings were obtained froin the The fort. Pietri felt that my warning crescent moon in the west. and first two shots had saved him head tracker borrowed my lamp and nutives fanned-out into the from being killed by surprise:
on the
t
my part I felt that he lind more jungle on one side searching for a than returned the favour when any landmark. Left to ourselves, Pietri as his shots had ac and I sat down wearily on the grans Kun janmmed
elopbant. Wo and defended ourselves the best we Lually turned the
could from the screaming elephant.
hook hande.
3
As the cooling cleared the brush Even a baby one is uncomfortably no platuren could be taken, the nerv heavy when he tries to stand on mansion and Inteneu excitement your lap. All around was blackness
my head and
THE END.
MOM
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