The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two. Sarath Kumar Ghosh
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The Leopard's Ground Color and Spots
The Panther: Popular Name for Large Leopard
How the Leopard Seizes his Prey
The Leopard's One Amiable Quality—He Loves Perfumes
The American Wolf Learns to Evade the Gun
The American Wolf Learns to Evade the Trap
The American Wolf Learns to Evade the Poison
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Elephants at Work | Frontispiece | |
| PAGE | ||
| Elephant Leading Herd Through the Jungle | 5 | |
| Trained Elephants at the Court of a King | 23 | |
| Elephants Guarding a Bad Elephant | 33 | |
| Policemen Elephants Arresting a Criminal Elephant | 45 | |
| Good Elephant Heading off a Criminal Elephant | 51 | |
| Tiger | 75 | |
| Tiger Protecting his Cub | 107 | |
| Tiger Charging Hunting Party | 121 | |
| Group of Lions | 129 | |
| Puma | 129 | |
| African Lion | 133 | |
| Giraffes | 147 | |
| Kangaroo | 147 | |
| Androcles and the Lion | 161 | |
| Leopard | 171 | |
| Jaguar | 171 | |
| The Chain of Conflict in the Jungle | 191 | |
| Gray Wolf | 197 | |
THE WONDERS OF THE JUNGLE
CHAPTER I
The Elephant Herd a Republic
An elephant herd is a kind of republic, something like the United States of America, only much smaller and much simpler. So its leader is a sort of president. He is usually the wisest elephant in the herd.
You may like to know how the elephants choose their president. I shall tell you how they do that.
But you must first consider how the people of the United States choose their President. They find out who among their important men is best able to lead them in all the great duties of the nation. Then they choose him.
But if afterward they find that he is not leading the nation in the wisest manner, then the people of the United States choose another man to be their President the next time.
The elephants in a herd do something like that. They first follow