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THE PATHETIC DEATHOF THE OLD ELEPHANTA Little Incident in itannah, Told byMrs. H. H. Votaw.Mrs. H H. Votaw, nee Carrie Harding, writing home from Bur-mah, relates a pathetic story of animal life that is worth putting intype. It is as follow#:“Nearby us, in a big lumber yard, lived ‘Old Tuskv,’ the most perfect specimen of the elephant I have ever seen. He was a grand beast, with the most perfect tusks you ever saw. He was a giant, too I always had an eye for him as I passed his shelter, and grew very attached to him, which will account for ray sorrow over his death.“Two of our mission workers went lt;to take his photograph one morning, and found him down. He was very ill, and his feet were so badhe could not work. It looked 1 like a fatal case, and in a few days he died. He was perfectly conscious to the last, and about a half hour before he died ho lost his ©ye- f sight So long as he could see his keeper, he seemed satisfied and content, but when he could no longer behold him whom he loved, he was painfully 'restless and uneasy, and began feeling about with hi# trunk in all directions. Noticing this un- *happy state, his keeper stepped 'near, asked him what he wanted, and that grand, old beast juat reach- ^ed out and folded his trunk about Ithe keeper, drew the human master c close to him, and held him there, f tenderly, till he died. It was a very t tender scene to all, and the keeper c cried like a child.” 1
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Marion Weekly Star
Marion, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 26, 1912
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