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The orderly came back in a few minutes with a rifle （步枪） and some Burmans（缅甸人） . He told us that the elephant was in the rice fields below ,only a few hundred yards away. As I started forward practically the whole population of the quarter flocked out of the houses and followed me .They had seen the rifle and were all shouting that I was going to shoot the elephant
.It was fun to them ,as it would be to an English crowd ;besides ,they wanted the meat .It made me a little uneasy .I had no intention of shooting the elephant —had I merely sent for the rifle to
defend myself — and it is always uneasy to have a crowd following you. I marched down the hill
,looking and feeling a fool ,with the rifle over my shoulder and an ever-growing army of people
knocking and pushing at my heels .Beyond the huts there was a rice field a thousand yards across
,muddy from the first rains. The elephant was standing eight yards from the road .He took not the
slightest notice of the crowd .He was tearing up bunches of grass, beating them against his knees
to clean them and feeding them into his mouth.
As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him. It
is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant —it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly
piece of machinery. There, peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a
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