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I forgot you'd got grinders as big as meat-tins. Good-bye, pumpkin. Now, Mister Archie, I am not sure, but I think I can say what the mahout does when he wants him to kneel down. Then don't you stop a moment, but climb up and get hold of them ropes that he has got round him, pull yourself up, and hold on. Ready?" "Yes," said Archie dreamily; but he was shaken up and confused by his fall.
Having entered the corral noiselessly, carrying a mahout on her shoulders with the headman of the noosers seated behind him, she moved slowly along with a sly composure and an assumed air of easy indifference; sauntering leisurely in the direction of the captives, and halting now and then to pluck a bunch of grass or a few leaves as she passed.
"Miss Ross's maid, sir, with that black fellow Chunder, the mahout, trying to kiss her." "Well!" he said, with a black angry look overspreading his face. "Well, sir," I said, feeling quite red as I spoke, "he kissed my fist instead that's all." Captain Dyer began to walk up and down, playing with one of the buttons on his breast as was his way when eager and excited.
When they required to reach under with the broad canvas bands, he rose a little without being told. Indeed they seldom spoke even to each other; and then in undertones. The elephant's mahout sat in his place on the neck, as if he were a part of the neck itself. The smoothness, the ease of it all, amazed Skag.
The man was solemnly feeling himself all over. He stared at a rent in the shoulder of his coat, torn by the tiger's claw. It was the only injury that he had suffered. In the reaction from the strain the girl and Wargrave went off in peals of laughter at his words. "But are you not wounded?" Miss Benson repeated. "Has it not clawed you?" The mahout shook his head.
But how much depends upon that mahout! It is impossible for an ordinary bystander to comprehend the secret signs which are mutually understood by the elephant and his guide, the gentle pressure of one toe, or the compression of one knee, or the delicate touch of a heel, or the almost imperceptible swaying of the body to one side; the elephant detects every movement, howsoever slight, and it is thus mysteriously guided by its intelligence; the mighty beast obeys the unseen helm of thought, just as a huge ship yields by apparent instinct to the insignificant appendage which directs her course, the rudder.
Elephant Concerns "Only the altogether ignorant do not know that the women of my line have been chaste." It was the youngest mahout of the Chief Commissioner's elephant stockades of Hurda, who spoke. They sat in comfort under the feathery branches of tall tamarisk trees, smoking their water-pipes, after the sunset meal. It was the time for talk.
"I will come down with a full heart and an empty stomach, most beneficent, when this Majesty will permit," the strange mahout assented wearily. "Is he rough, son to sit?" asked the very old man, coming closer.
At some distance from the road others stood apparently tethered in line, awaiting their turn for exercise. These were the far-famed tanks. Their commander, or chief mahout as I was inclined to call him was a cheerful young giant of colonial origin, who has often driven them serenely across No Man's Land and into the German trenches.
Yet now he goes forth for days and brings back no heads. What does he?" "For days, say you, Chotu?" queried another mahout. "Ay, for more than days. For nights. What man among us, what man even of these wild men around us, would willingly pass a night in the forest?" "True talk," agreed the old Mohammedan. "Which of us would care to lie down alone beside his elephant in the jungle all night?
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