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Fired by their pressagent's persistence, the circusmen pushed, shoved, squeezed and bedeviled the little elephant up the station steps and through the narrow doors of a monorail car that was already crowded with passengers. The car took off, soaring across the city and along the banks of the...
ELEPHANT BILL (250 pp.)-Lieut. Colonel J. H. Williams-Doubleday ($3).
Burma is full of elephants that never forget. Back in the '20s and '30s, when J. H. ("Elephant Bill") Williams was working as elephant manager for the Bombay Burma Trading Corp., he traveled from camp to camp, inspecting the jumbos whose job was pushing & pulling four-ton teak...
On such visits, Williams often had to syringe the sinuses of his charges, inoculate them against anthrax, and doctor them generally. He once spent three weeks treating an elephant called Ma Kyaw ("Miss Smooth") for some tiger-claw gouges on her back. Two months later, Williams was having tea outside...
After the Thunder. Cornwall-bred Williams got his first experience with outsize animals when he served with the British Camel Corps in World War I. After the war he went to Burma and graduated to elephants. Elephant Bill is the modest, rambling story of what he learned about the beasts...