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Updated: May 25, 2025
'Call up your beast, said the planter, and Deesa shouted in the mysterious elephant-language, that some mahouts believe came from China at the birth of the world, when elephants and not men were masters. Moti Guj heard and came. Elephants do not gallop. They move from spots at varying rates of speed.
'He'll work now, said Dessa to the planter. 'Have I leave to go? The planter nodded, and Deesa dived into the woods. Moti Guj went back to haul stumps. Chihun was very kind to him, but he felt unhappy and forlorn notwithstanding.
'Be still, hog of the backwoods. Chihun's your mahout for ten days. And now bid me good-bye, beast after mine own heart. Oh, my lord, my king! Jewel of all created elephants, lily of the herd, preserve your honoured health; be virtuous. Adieu! Moti Guj lapped his trunk round Deesa and swung him into the air twice. That was his way of bidding the man good-bye.
'Deesa, said he, 'you've spoken the truth, and I'd give you leave on the spot if anything could be done with Moti Guj while you're away. You know that he will only obey your orders. 'May the Light of the Heavens live forty thousand years. I shall be absent but ten little days. After that, upon my faith and honour and soul, I return.
Chihun gave him balls of spices, and tickled him under the chin, and Chihun's little baby cooed to him after work was over, and Chihun's wife called him a darling; but Moti Guj was a bachelor by instinct, as Deesa was. He did not understand the domestic emotions. He wanted the light of his universe back again the drink and the drunken slumber, the savage beatings and the savage caresses.
Deesa sat on Moti Guj's neck and gave him orders, while Moti Guj rooted up the stumps for he owned a magnificent pair of tusks; or pulled at the end of a rope for he had a magnificent pair of shoulders, while Deesa kicked him behind the ears and said he was the king of elephants.
Deesa sat on Moti Guj's neck and gave him orders, while Moti Guj rooted up the stumps for he owned a magnificent pair of tusks; or pulled at the end of a rope for he had a magnificent pair of shoulders, while Deesa kicked him behind the ears and said he was the king of elephants.
The one country seemed young, hopeful, American, even foolishly gay, the other serious, speculative, dour. Eugene had taken a number of letters from M. Charles, Hudson Dula, Louis Deesa, Leonard Baker and others, who, on hearing that he was going, had volunteered to send him to friends in Paris who might help him.
'A devastating sickness has fallen on my village, and all my wives are dying, yelled Deesa, really in tears this time. 'Call Chihun, who comes from Deesa's village, said the planter. 'Chihun, has this man a wife? 'He! said Chihun. 'No. Not a woman of our village would look at him. They'd sooner marry the elephant. Chihun snorted. Deesa wept and bellowed.
He was the absolute property of his mahout, which would never have been the case under native rule, for Moti Guj was a creature to be desired by kings; and his name, being translated, meant the Pearl Elephant. Because the British Government was in the land, Deesa, the mahout, enjoyed his property undisturbed. He was dissipated.
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