21 JUNE 1890, Page 15

THE ELEPHANT RYDER.'

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.']

Sin,—I cannot help thinking that there is something ques- tionable in the story of Ryder,' the elephant, quoted by you from Colonel Davidson's " Recollections " (p. 841 a). If the jar was so hot that the cakes ran the risk of being burnt, it surely must have been too hot to allow of the tender tip of Hyder's ' trunk to be put in, and the cakes to be grasped.—I am,

Sir, &c., G.