ILUSTRATIONS BY
John McLenan
NEW York

LIVERMORE & RUDD..

The

HISTORY AND RECORDS

OF THE

ELEPHANT CLUB;

COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS

NOW IN POSSESSION OF THE

Zoological Society.

BY

Knight Russ Ockside, M.D.,

AND

Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.

NEW YORK :
Livermore & Rudd, Publishers,
310 Broadway,

EXTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by

LIVERMORE & RUDD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

W. H. TINSON, STEREOTYPER.

GEO. RUSSELL & CO., PRINTERS, 61 Beekman-Street, N. Y.

THIS IS THE VERITABLE AND VERACIOUS HISTORY OF THE DOINGS

AND MISDOINGS OF THE MEMBERS OF

THE ELEPHANT CLUB.

WITH A MINUTE AND PARTICULAR NARRATIVE OF WHAT THEY DID; TO WHICH IS ADDED A COMPLEX AND ELABORATE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THEY DIDN'T.

CONTAINING ALSO THE EXULTANT RECORD OF THEIR MEMORABLE SUCCESS IN EVENTUALLY OBTAINING, EACH AND EVERY ONE, A SIGHT OF THE ENTIRE AND UNADULTERATED

Animal,

FROM THE PRIMITIVE HAIR ON HIS ATTENUATED PROBOSCIS, TO THE LAST KINK OF HIS SYMMETRICAL TAIL.

COMPILED

BY ME,

KNIGHT RUSS OCKSIDE, M.D.,

AND ME,

Q. K. PHILANDER DOESTICKS, P. B.