Anccdotes of Animals.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 28 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Anecdotes of Animals.

An Eiii:riiA>u's Motheh Lovn. Ddhivi. the recent season for tho captures of elephants ia Ceylon, a remarkable instaDCO of tha ftlfcdion of a female of the rpeciedfor her calf was offered to the hunters' notioe. A herd was duly surrounded by (he capturing party, and with Iho vo-nierfully intelligent aid of their " kuilMe^ "— n lined elephants who are wicked enough to help make their luckless coi^ins fast— fopr or five fine animals were tahen. Among them was a bancNcire young tnsker, about nix feet high, and very active. Tho rest of the heid escaped, and dashed away in gnat confusion. The hunting party Becured thtir prizes and convoyed them to the camp. E rly n« xl morning a picat stir wan noticed in tlio ranks of the captured elephintg. A hugo female wis ob=cived etanding bcsido the prisoned tusker, and doing her best to liberate him. It was the calf's mother that had mido her way over eight milefl of country between the scene of her loss and the hunting camp to trace out her young one and bring him homo. Thia feat ahe had accomplished in the middle of the ni^ht, and through a denpe forest ; nor was it easy to diecover how she had followed his track bo oorreotly and Rpeedily. _ Tho mother and child worked to^rtber excitedly at Iho noofie3 and knots. When the prisoner fell over from exbauHtion, the mother tenderly helped him to hie feet, and renewed her labore. Her devotion cost her her liberty, for, an Bhe whb giving up the Btrupglo in denpair and moving off, she too was captured, and tho pair forwarded to the station together.— Harper's Young People.

" DoiN'T yon think," said Mre. Keeper, " that when Adam realised the vantnesa of tho world into which he had been ushered that bo must have had a great deal on his mind ?" " Well," responded Mrs. Blunt, " from tho photographs I have seen of him, I should say that whatever he did have on must have been on his mind,"— Troy Pren,