 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - 566 ページ
...mean, and carry more persuasion than my argument. I was one day feeding the poor elephant (who was so barbarously put to death at Exeter 'Change) with potatoes,...touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force... | |
 | 1832 - 368 ページ
...sit upon and hatch them.—Ibid. THE ELEPHANT.—I was one day feeding the poor elephant (who was so barbarously put to death at Exeter 'Change) with potatoes,...touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last bien the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 ページ
...mean, and carry more persuasion than my argument. I was one day feeding the poor elephant (who was so barbarously put to death at Exeter 'Change) with potatoes,...touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 ページ
...came under his own observation:—" J was one day," says he, "feeding the poor elephant (who was so barbarously put to death at Exeter Change) with potatoes,...touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against the opposite wall, with sufficient... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 ページ
...see the elephant at Exeter 'Change, which he fed from his hand with potatoes. One of the potatoes, a round one, fell on the floor, just out of the reach...touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several -CT. XI.] ESSAYS. 135 — ImoSLd. — The New Zealanders — Feedee and Adic, 3 — dined,... | |
 | Willson Cryer - 1842 - 60 ページ
...foretold."— Dublin University Magazine, 1840. " I was one day feeding the poor elephant who was so barbarously put to death at Exeter Change, with potatoes,...wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the potatoe, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potatoe against... | |
 | Henry Duncan (D.D.) - 1847 - 430 ページ
...came under his own observation :— 1 1 was one day,' says he, ' feeding the poor elephant (who was so barbarously put to death at Exeter Change) with potatoes,...touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 ページ
...which came under his own observation. "I was one day," says he, "feeding the poor elephant (who was so barbarously put to death at Exeter Change) with potatoes,...touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against tta opposite wall with sufficient force... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1858 - 272 ページ
...at Exeter Change. A gentleman was one day feeding this animal with potatoes which it took out of his hand. One of them, a round one, fell on the floor, just out of the reach of its proboscis. It leaned against the wooden bar, put out its trunk and could just touch the potatoe,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 202 ページ
...creature took out of his hand. One of them fell on the floor, just out of the reach of his trunk, lie leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk,...touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force... | |
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barbarously put to death at Exeter 'Change) with potatoes, which he took out of my hand. One of them, a round one, fell on the floor, just out of the reach of his proboscis. He leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the... 
