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Several mahouts left their places and went to one spot; and Skag saw the one who had been called. He was sitting low against the ground, slowly rocking his head from side to side. A mahout was examining his ears folding them back and feeling of them laying his cheek against the inside surface. "Is he sick?" Skag asked.
The elephants once more emerged from the sultry jungle; they were blowing spray with their trunks upon their flanks, from water sucked up from their stomachs; and the mahouts were all down-hearted and in despair. "It's of no use," they said, "he's gone straight away, who can tell where?
That's the best of it. You can't grarsp it because you have been lying there onsensible and don't know what's happened. I didn't believe it myself at first; but you remember about the review and the big Rajah's helephants?" "Yes, of course." "Well, when I was off duty for a bit I goes and makes friends with one of the swell mahouts him as drove the Rajah's own helephant.
Mahouts will always lie concerning the reputation of the animal in their charge, and I had been assured that the great male belonging to the Ranee of Bijni was the ideal character I coveted; but I discovered that his temper was so well known that the Rajah positively declined to expose his line of elephants to an attack, which he assured me would take place if the animal became excited; in which event some valuable elephant would suffer, as the long tusks of the Bijni elephant had not been blunted, or shortened by the saw.
The so-called path was very rugged, and he wondered how they had been able to get the elephants along it at all. Indeed, when he reached them, the mahouts were complaining loudly, and making much display of the wounded feet of their charges.
He went in with a charging challenge that was intoxication to those who heard all the assurance of ancient mastership in it. No one had ever seen Neela Deo fight before. Kudrat Sharif was so astonished that he barely got back from his neck in time to be out of the way. The mahouts were amazed Neela Deo did not fight! Neela Deo was the Lord of peaceful rule!
We hurried round as fast as we could to intercept him, should he attempt to break on ahead; and leaving some men to rally the mahouts, and let them know that there was a tiger afoot, we were soon in our places, and ready to give the cub a warm reception, should he again show his stripes. It was not long ere he did so.
I render homage of Hill blood, hot and full, to every one of you my elders because you are all mahouts of High Himalaya, even as my fathers were." The men of the stockades bowed their heads in grave acknowledgment.
They don't allow strangers about where he is; he's the one the mahouts won't let me go near him." "What's wrong with him?" Skag asked. "I don't know; I'm always wondering. In the beginning when I was little but I don't believe it was wrong." The boy spoke haltingly, frowning; but went on: "That's between Nut Kut and Horace Dickson! I like him better than anything I know.
Every compound and available walled space had been requisitioned to accommodate the brutes, and there were sufficient argumentative mahouts, all insisting that their elephants had not enough to eat, and all selling at least half of the pr-vided ration, to have formed a good-sized regiment. The elephants' daily bath in the river was a sight worth crossing India to see.
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