FIRST EDITION, 3s. 6d., _May 1898_. NEW IMPRESSIONS, _August 1898_; _November 1899_; _September 1905_. HEINEMANN'S SEVENPENNY NOVELS, _July 1912_. _A well-known English novelist once told me that of all his published works--and their name is legion--one only had been founded on fact, and that one his critics united in condemning as impossible and unnatural. In the case of my own little book, I venture to forestall such criticism by stating that while the characters which appear in its pages are at the most only composite photographs, the one "impossible" and "unnatural" figure, the elephant, had his foundation in actual fact; and the history of its acquirement by the Consul, as hereinafter …
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