Produced by Suzanne Shell, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Boys' Big Game Series THE ROGUE ELEPHANT The Boys' Big Game Series [Illustration] =THE GIANT MOOSE.= The monarch of the big Northwest; a story told over camp fires in the reek of cedar smoke and the silence of the barrens. =THE WHITE TIGER OF NEPAL.= The weird story of the man-killer of the foothills. Tinged with the mysticism of India, dramatic and stirring. =THE BLIND LION OF THE CONGO.= A story of the least known part of the earth and its most feared beast. A gripping tale of the land of the white pigmies. =THE KING BEAR OF KADIAK ISLAND.= A tale of the bully of the Frozen North and his mysterious guardian. A game-and-man-story that makes a good boy-story. =THE ROGUE ELEPHANT.= A big game hunt that leads into strange lands and stranger adventures in a real big game country. _Remarkable covers and four-color jackets. Illustrations and cover designs by Dan Sayre Groesbeck_ Price 60 cents each Publishers The Reilly & Britton Co. Chicago [Illustration: It seemed that the great beast was towering over him, reaching for him with that terrible trunk. Then he drew a careful bead on the left fore-shoulder.] THE ROGUE ELEPHANT BY ELLIOTT WHITNEY Illustrated by Fred J. Arting The Reilly & Britton Co. Chicago COPYRIGHT, 1913 by THE REILLY & BRITTON CO. THE ROGUE ELEPHANT CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A CHANCE "OUT" 9 II OFF FOR THE FRONT 21 III QUILQUA THE MYSTERIOUS 33 IV MAKING READY 46 V THE FIRST HUNT 59 VI MOUNT KENIA 71 VII ELEPHANT 83 VIII A RECONNAISSANCE 95 IX INTO THE UNKNOWN 108 X MOWBRAY'S END 120 XI THE DESERT TREK 133 XII A DESERTED LAND 145 XIII A DESPERATE BATTLE 158 XIV THE LAKE OF MYSTERY 170 XV "UNDER THE LEFT GATE-POST" 182 XVI SELIM SHOWS HIS TEETH 194 XVII FRESH SPOOR 206 XVIII LOST! 218 XIX THE ROGUE ELEPHANT 230 XX THE BACK TRAIL 242 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS It seemed that the great beast was towering over him, reaching for him with that terrible trunk. Then he drew a careful bead on the left fore-shoulder. _Frontispiece_ Everything else was forgotten in the novel method of riding. _Page 54_