07 Elephant Adventure
“Experienced hunters say, ‘Never run from an elephant’ The elephant can do twenty-five miles an hour when it has to, and it would take an Olympic sprinter to come anywhere near that Or a pygmy. The pygmies can cover the ground at amazing speed. Their light little bodies fairly seem to fly. And it was the pygmies who saved the day for Hal.
Two fast-footed young men overtook the great beast and followed so close on its heels that they were in danger of being kicked into Kingdom Come. Each slashed a hind foot with his knife.
Roger, sprinting along behind, could not imagine what good this would do. A couple of little pokes with a knife could not stop this thundering locomotive.
But the little elephant-hunters knew what they were doing. For hundreds of years the pygmies had stopped elephants in just this way, by cutting the tendons in the hind legs.
The elephant trumpeted with pain, stumbled, and stopped. The hind feet were tipped up on edge. They wobbled helplessly, no longer controlled by... the stout tendons like ropes that run down the back of the leg.MoreLess
Two fast-footed young men overtook the great beast and followed so close on its heels that they were in danger of being kicked into Kingdom Come. Each slashed a hind foot with his knife.
Roger, sprinting along behind, could not imagine what good this would do. A couple of little pokes with a knife could not stop this thundering locomotive.
But the little elephant-hunters knew what they were doing. For hundreds of years the pygmies had stopped elephants in just this way, by cutting the tendons in the hind legs.
The elephant trumpeted with pain, stumbled, and stopped. The hind feet were tipped up on edge. They wobbled helplessly, no longer controlled by... the stout tendons like ropes that run down the back of the leg.MoreLess
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