Page 42 (1/2)

"Strange thing about a gunshot," said Bruce "They may never have

heard one before; but instinct tells theo at ho the closed season I'd

see thousands of duck and geese and deer Yet a single gunshot when

the season opened and you never could get within a mile of them"

"That is true I have fished and hunted with father"

"Surely! I keep forgetting that it's ten to one you know ain On, on, without pausing Bruce was

getting sleepy hirew the east; the ray and the chill in the air seemed sharpest yet

They were both awake

Sunup they stopped by a strea the

elephant kneel and went to the water to fill his canteen The hunter

in hier, a

leopard, some apes, and a herd of antelopes had been down to drink

during the night Even as he looked a huge gray ape ca out,

head-on toward Rajah, who despised these foolish beasts Perhaps the

old elephant missed Ali, perhaps he was still somewhat upset by his

failure to join his wild brothers the night before; at any rate,

without warning, he set off with that shuffling gait which sometimes

carried him as swiftly as a horse An elephant never trots nor really

runs according to our conception of the terround