them breathe he said holding up his hand they have not him yet let them breathe i must tell who comes we have him in the trap he put his hands to his mouth and shouted down the � it was almost like shouting down a � and the echoes jumped from rock to rock after a long time there came back the sleepy of a full fed tiger just awakened the book who calls said and a splendid fluttered up out of the i cattle thief it is time to come to the council rock down � hurry them down down down the herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope but gave tongue in the full hunting yell and they pitched over one after the other just as shoot the sand and stones up round them once started there was no chance of stopping and before they were fairly in the bed of the and ha ha said on his back now thou and the torrent of black horns foaming and staring eyes whirled down the like in flood time the weaker being shouldered out to the sides of the where they tore through the they knew what the business was before them � the terrible charge of the herd against which no tiger can hope to stand heard the thunder of their hoofs picked himself up and down the looking from side to side for some way of escape but the walls of the were straight and he had tiger tiger � � keep on heavy with his dinner and his drink willing to do anything rather than fight the herd through the pool he had just left till the narrow cut rang heard an answering from the foot of the saw turn the tiger knew if the worst came to the worst it was better to meet the than the cows with their and then tripped stumbled and went on again over something soft and with the at his heels full into the other herd while the weaker were lifted clean off their feet by the shock of the meeting that charge carried both herds out into the plain and stamping and watched his time and slipped off s neck laying about him right and left with his stick quick break them up scatter them or they will be fighting one another drive them away hai hai hai my children softly now softly it is all over and gray brother ran to and fro the legs and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the again managed to turn and the others followed him to the us the book needed no more he was dead and the were coming for him already brothers that was a dog s death said feeling for the knife he always carried in a round his neck now that he with men but he would never have shown fight his hide will look well on the council rock we must get to work swiftly a boy trained among men would never have dreamed of a ten foot tiger alone but knew better than any one else how an animal s skin is fitted on and how it can be taken off but it was hard work and and tore and for an hour while the wolves out their tongues or came forward and as he ordered them presently a hand fell on his shoulder and looking up he saw with the tower the children had told the village about the and went out angrily only too anxious to correct for not taking better care of the herd the wolves dropped out of sight as soon as they saw the man coming what is this folly said angrily to think that thou skin a tiger where did the kill him it is the lame tiger � tiger i tiger i too and there is a hundred on his head well well we will overlook thy letting the herd run off and perhaps i will give thee one of the of the reward when i have taken the skin to he in his waist cloth for flint and steel and stooped down to s whiskers most native hunters a tiger s whiskers to prevent his ghost haunting them hum said half to himself as he back the skin of a fore so thou wilt take the hide to for the reward and perhaps give me one now it is in my mind that i need the skin for my own use old man take away that fire what talk is this to the chief hunter of the village thy luck and the stupidity of thy have helped thee to this kill the tiger has just fed or he would have gone twenty miles by this time thou not even skin him properly little beggar and i must be told not to his whiskers i will not give thee one of the reward but only a very big beating leave the by the bull that bought me said who was trying to get at the shoulder must i t the book stay to an old all noon here this man me who was still stooping over s head found himself on the grass with a gray wolf standing over him while went on as though he were alone in all india ye es he said between his teeth thou art altogether right thou wilt never give me one of the reward there is an old war between this lame tiger and myself � a very old war and � i have won to do justice if he had been ten years younger he would have taken his chance with had he met the wolf in the woods but a wolf who obeyed the orders of this boy who had private wars with man eating was not a common animal it was magic of the worst kind thought and he wondered 