Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1899 — Brave Elephants. [ARTICLE]

Brave Elephants.

No animal will face danger more readily, at man’s bidding, than the elephant. As an instancy, take the following incident, which recently occurred in India. A small female elephant was charged by a buffalo in high grass, and her rider, in the hurry of the moment, and perhaps owing to the sudden stopping of the elephant, fired an explosive shell from his rifle, not into the buffalo, but into the elephant’s shoulder. The wound was so severe that it had not healed a year later. Yet the elephant stood firm, although it was gored by the buffalo, which was then killed by another gun. What -is even more strange is that the elephant was not nervous of gun reports afterward.