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use more than this; so that a hundred thousand elephants are annually killed for the pair of teeth that belongs to each. Before long, therefore, there will be no more elephants, no more ivory, and no more ivory-handled pocket knives.

33. THE CHILDREN'S GIANT FRIEND.

"IT was in December, 1851," says Mr. Matthew Scott, in Harper's Young People, "that my name was entered on the books of the Royal Zoological Society's Garden, at Regent's Park, in London. I was then seventeen years of age, and my great desire to be constantly among the animals was finally gratified.

"I well remember when it was announced, eighteen years ago, that an African elephant, with immense ears like folding parlor doors, would soon arrive, and the managers decided to put me in charge of him. There was great excitement when the boat carrying him arrived from Paris, and it seemed as if all the boys and girls in London turned out to see him. The little elephant was a curiosity on account of his peculiar shape and big ears, and the members of several learned societies came to examine him.

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The name I gave him, Jumbo, had no particular meaning; in fact I do not think I had ever before heard it.

"From the natives where he was captured it was learned that Jumbo was five years old, and I took great delight in telling visitors that he

would grow to be the biggest elephant in the world. He was then in a bad state of health.

"Jumbo and I were fast friends the first time we met, and he would be governed by none of the other keepers. He was like a great, goodnatured boy, and he took a special fancy to children and ladies, and was never so happy as when he could carry a back-load of little ones around the Park. His passengers included children of royalty and nobility, and as he grew rapidly, a larger saddle was needed every few months.

"One day, as Jumbo was passing through a crowd, he suddenly stopped, and would not move an inch when I commanded him to proceed. From my seat in the saddle I observed that a lady below was much agitated as she came running toward Jumbo. Leaning over the side of the saddle, I saw that a child of two or three years had fallen in our pathway, and was lying between Jumbo's fore feet. The beast would not stir until he had taken up the infant tenderly in his trunk and passed it over to the mother.

"Mr. Barnum, ten years ago, saw Jumbo at the Gardens and tried to purchase him. When he offered fifty thousand dollars for him, I was afraid the directors would let him go and I should lose best friend. But they assured me that they would never let the animal go to America

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for any price. Six years ago, however, Jumbo had turns of fretfulness which alarmed the directors. I told them that elephants were social animals, and that what ailed Jumbo was the want of society.

"As Mr. Barnum had a score or more of elephants in his great American show, the superintendent of the zoological gardens advised the sale of Jumbo at a greatly reduced price. Mr. Barnum offered ten thousand dollars, and the directors accepted the offer. It was one of the happiest days of my life when I found that I was to accompany my old friend across the water.

PART 2.

"THE journey is familiar to every boy and girl in the land. Even those who have not seen Jumbo on his travels through the country have read how he was boxed up and hoisted aboard the steamer Assyrian Monarch, and how, on his arrival in New York in April, 1882, every paper in the land had columns of interesting news about the wonderful beast that had now grown to be the largest known animal in the world.

"Jumbo was unlike any other elephant in Mr. Barnum's herd. It would never do to punish him or to force him to obey. He minded me because he loved me. Whenever I could make

my wishes known to him he always obeyed. Like a child he would sometimes be peevish and sullen, but at such times he would solicit me to pet him, and if I remained near, he would soon get over his ill feeling.

"He was mischievous, too; and as my bed was near him, he would oftentimes wait until I had fallen asleep, and then carefully take off my bedclothes without awakening me. If it was cold weather, I would find the quilts crowded into the ventilator overhead. I recollect finding my coat and vest carefully tucked into the grating of the car, out of my reach. I looked for them for half an hour, while Jumbo swung his trunk like an enormous pendulum, as he always did when expressing delight. Finally, he directed my attention to the grating, and at my request gave them back.

Many times Jumbo has picked me up and placed me out of danger of various kinds, and in several instances he saved my life. When the stampede of elephants took place last year, he caught me in his trunk and held me prisoner between his fore feet until the general alarm had subsided.

"I do not like to review the details of Jumbo's sudden death. He showed his affection for me to the last moment, and it seems he realized the danger to which he was exposed. He first

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