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Without warning, he flicked his mahout off his neck and set him precisely on the ground the movement so quick no eye could follow his trunk as it did it. The youngest mahout brought a sheaf of tender branches such as are most desirable and laid them near, but not too near; and when the elephant began to eat, they removed the burden of his mahout's possessions from his back.
"Now, Mister Archie, sir," he cried, as he seized the two spears and handed them up, "take hold; I'll carry one by-and-by. Now, old chap," he continued, "it's my turn now. Up with you!" And once more his memory served him in giving some rendering of the mahout's command, for in his slow, lumbering fashion the monster began to sway. "Hold tight, sir, whatever you do," cried Peter. "Yes.
From the elephant standpoint, a small Englishman was conceding a certain amount of convenience to men. "You see," the boy went on, "an elephant lives anyway more than a hundred years; and his name stays just like that and draws pay without changing. Always a mahout's son takes his place, when he gets too old or dies. I can recall when Mitha Baba's mahout was one of the most wonderful of them all.
No sooner did Lord Mayo move forward in obedience to the mahout's command, and feel the tug of the weight attached, than he started off in a panic at a tremendous pace, dragging the body through the lanes between the piles of sleepers, upsetting them, and sending them flying in all directions, as the dead ox caught against the corners; and, helter-skelter, he made for the nearest jungle about 300 yards distant.
It was a very large one, and the skin was in good condition, which showed that he had not taken to man eating long. The Doctor bound up the wound on the mahout's leg, and then superintended the skinning of the animal while waiting for the arrival of the trap. When it came up he said, "You might as well take a seat by my side, Bathurst; the syce will sit behind and lead your horse."
Poor fellow, and we are all very sorry for him and much obliged because he was kind enough to come and blow all our cartridges to Jericho, or elsewhere, as they say on the soldiers' letters. You stop here a little while, sir, and you will hear him begin to jabber. Talk about that mahout's pa-ta-ta-ma-ta-ja-ja-ja this chap goes twice as fast." "Well, Pete, I can't stop talking to you.
By this time Archie seemed to be quite exhausted, and as Pete passed an arm round him and lowered him back on to the pad before slipping a hand into his waistband to ensure his not slipping off, the poor fellow's eyes were half-closed, while those of his companion were fixed with the lids wide apart, and with a fierce, staring look gazed forward over the mahout's head in the wild hope of seeing something that he could recognise, something that would prove that they really were on the path that led to headquarters.
Whether this slight prod of the mahout's ankus was, or was not, intentional, it is not easy to say, but it took instant effect upon the Big Doctor. "There are other pretty young girls in the neighbourhood besides Christian Lowry," he said sharply. "And maybe prettier!
As he warmed with his subject, and tried to shew us how the tiger must have pounced on the man, he would let go and use his hands in illustration; the old elephant would give another heave, and the fat little man would make another frantic grab at the patient mahout's hair. The whole scene was most comical, and we were in convulsions of laughter.
The Doctor uttered a groan, and then, as the elephant knelt in response to the mahout's order, the Doctor's despair died away to make room for duty. "Now, my lads," he cried, "half-a-dozen of you help them down and carry them carefully into hospital. Cheer up, boys! I'll soon put you right. Ah, Sir Charles! You here? I can't go. Hold up, man! Go up to my place and speak to my wife.
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