A STRANGE VISITOR.
An elephant, escaped from a mpnixgerie at Woolwich found ifs way into the back premiaea of the dtvelling honae of a vrorking man. I« Bao«eded m forcing i'.s trunk through a window, and reached the t*bie, upon which were the rtmaina of the previous evening's supper. Tbeio it quickly demolished, as also the breakfast for the mas'er of th* house, which wa< careTully % tied ap m a handkerchief, tbe anmal having Buooeeded m undoing tha knot* after the most approved faihlon. One of the inmarei, imagining that barglars were 1 - the h mie, struck at the intruder m the darkness with ft poker at which the elaphsnt started with a U-rrlno roar to tho consternation of its assailant A light, howeve' 1 , was coon obtained, and when the true fads of the case were «li< ol>ed, the nmmO was duly rfotored to the custody of its beeper
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 3
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150A STRANGE VISITOR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 3
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