The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1898 Page: 9 of 16
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nefit. An incident is told
" ^raerican traveller, who spent
•' wfe time in London with Rudyard
Kipling, relating to an interview that
author had with an elephant which re-
flects great credit upon the man for his
kindheartedness and skill in alleviat-
ing a wonderful spirit, while it shows
the high grade of intelligence which
this animal is known to posesss as
compaiwd with the brute creation gen-
erally.
One afternoon," he says, "we went
together to the Zoo, and while stroll-
ing about our ears were assailed by the
most melancholy sound I have ever
heard—a complaining, fretting, la-
menting sound proceeding from the
elephant house.
" 'What's the matter in there?'
asked Mr. Kipling of the keeper.
" 'A sick elephant, sir; he cries all
the time; we don't know what to do
.with him,' was the answer.
"Mr. Kipling hurried away from me
in the direction of the lament, which
was growing louder and more painful.
I followed and saw him go up close to
the cage where stood an elephant with
sadly drooping ears and trunk. He
was crying actual tears, at the time
that he mourned his lot most audibly.
In another moment Mr. Kipling was
right up at the bars, and I heard him
speak to the sick beast in a language
that may have been elephantese, but
certainly was not English. Instantly
the whining noise stopped, the ears
were lifted, the monster turned his
sleepy little suffering eyes upon his
.visitor and put out his trunk. Mr.
Kinpling began to caress it, still speak-
ing in the same soothing tone and in
.words unintelligible to me at least.
After a few minutes the beast began to
answer in a much lower tone of voice,
and evidently recounted his woes.
Possibly elephants when in poor health
like to confide their symptoms to sym-
pathizing listeners as much as do some
human invalids. Certain it was that
Mr. Kipling and that elephant carried
on a conversation, with the result that
the elephant found his spirits much
cheered and improved. The whine
went out of his voice, he forgot that he
was so much to be pitied, he began to
exchange experiences with his friend,
and he was quite unconscious, as was
Mr. Kipling, of the amused and inter-
ested crowd collected about the cage.
At last, with a start, Mr. Kipling found
himself and his elephant the observed
of all observers, and beat a hasty re-
treat, leaving behind him a very differ-
ent creature from the one he had
} found.
I " 'Doesn't that beat everything you
|? } ever saw?' ejaculated a compatriot of
■ mine, as the elephant trumpeted e. loud
and cheerful good-bye to the back of
his vanishing visitor; and I agreed
with him that it did.
" 'What language were you talking
to that elephant?' I asked, when I
overtook my friend.
"'Language? What do you mean?'
í.Va ' lie answered, with a laugh.
"'Are you a mowgli?' I persisted,
'and can you talk to all those beasts in
their own tongues?'
"But he only smiled in reply. Who
should say that Mr. Kipling during his
long residence in India had not ac-
quired the elephantese dialect so that
he could talk as freely with the beast '*We sit up very late every night to "No; but if we didn't read nearly all
as with his Hindu or English-speaking read." night we couldn't answer Bobby's ques-
friends?" "Do you belong to so many clubs?" tions."—Chicago Record.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1898, newspaper, January 6, 1898; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185738/m1/9/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .