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ita midday nap quite close to us. Be was right. After we had crept forward about another 300 metres this creeping was, moreover, no trife in view of the nature of this close relation of a pontine marab on the slippery ground of which we slithered about miserably—we saw the colossus lying on his side, gray, Kisa.. sive, with the head pointed towards us. THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND complete fount; including fals. and Tast asleep"

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THIS WONDERFUL SYPHON

It had been impressed upon me where

the car, of from in front, immediately above the root of the trunk.

up by occasional touches of humour and poetry, Hult of the bulk of the book is taken up by mountings of excellent photo- I knelt down in the swamp, and graphic plates, which in most cases are į steadied myself against a small willow, front negatives by either, the author or or something similar. I aimed at the the Crown Princess. Of the fourteen spot above the trunk, and confess that chapterlets, one deals with grouse shoot. I placed my finger very nervously on the ing on Scottish moors and six with the trigger. Prince's experiences in India last year.

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The first of these contains the follow. ing warm oulogy of English country lifa

These English country mansions are, to my taste, the most elegant sad at the same timg the most comfortable places | I could see the place where my shot that can bò imagined. In my Indian had hit him, although too high. The shot. mating sketches I have already extolled must have been through the oblique posi -the fabulous hospitality of the English, į tion of the head, and it failed to strike a

and I should bere like once more to re- vital part. na

Leull it with thanks. In such a house" Thers the fellow stood, puzzled an Jevery guest is looked after in a captivat- raging. Only a moment, but just long

ing manner. And this care operates in a enough for Finkenstein and one of the jeharming, quiet way, which never lets Englishmen each to get in a builet; then

the object of it see that the host in in any way troubling about him. In this

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the wounded giant turned and crashed away from ua.. . .

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One of the Englishmen, however, de- elsred straight out that he could not agree to my going, another step farther, fon wounded elephant was no joke.

We replied calmly that be could remain behind, which he declined to do. So v all set off on the track of the wounded

This pursuit I shall never forget, in all my life.

the victim in question. None of that in England. Meals take place at fixed hours, at which the house party assem bles. If nothing particular, shooting, for instance, is going on, each one is then | absolutely his own master. As these

house parties are generally composed of animal. high-spirited young, gentlemen, and in part of very pretty ladies, the essential conditions of a pleasant sojourn are givens At the same time the house and grounds of the host are placed anreservedly at the disposal of the guests in the most daring interpretation of the term. If one wants to ride, he only need say so; motoring. fishing, shooting, sailing, tennis, golf,

flirting all are there.

Such a house of perfected hospitality was this Scottish nobleman's seat. In the evening every guest received a gat denis as a buttonhole for his dress-coat. In the morning the others started in four in-hand coaches, while the amiable mes-

ter of the house followed with ma in

This undergrowth was enormously thick, und entirely blocked the view. At any moment we might be confronted by the wounded elephant at twenty puces distance. If he attacked us we were lost; as to that there was no doubt..

The ground was slippery, and every where covered with thorns, so that we could not deviate two steps from the Jephant's track. There were no. large trees. Destruction threatened behind the wall of brushwood and, as a matter of fact it almost took us by surprise.

One of the English gentlerion has jub

brushed the curtains of creepers roughly small American dogenit. This he drove aside then I Bee that he suddenly makes

as otherwise it bored him, at full gallopspasmodic signs to me. I spring forward. to the rendezvous. The springs were 50 and gesticulate quickly to Finkenstein. corstructed that there rus no jolting....In front of us twenty paces away These drives too, I fanad novel and stands the grey giant roady for attack, famous; for here one only noes runawaythu mighty ears extended, trunk" rolled cobs and batteries getting into action at up. the gallop.

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The book is not arranged chronologic- ally, and opens, as it closes, with India. In the initial sketch the Prince's first shot at an clephant in Ceylon is: Elena described:

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