Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-25

imam III H. Saul OOAAA 10y AhS /
down the law.
"And the seconds are worse than
the principals they share the folly |
and not the danger" said Bingham,
taking up the strain.
''Gently, gently! Sweeping CEN
sure is always unjust" said Morley,
taking up the speaker.
"Heyday, Morley! You are not
a duelling man, are you You
never left the Rue de Ia Paix to
walk in the Champ de Mars, surelyP
"Well, 1 was very nearly ascend
once"
Every nearly! Didn't the fight
come OFF,"
"No."
"How was it? A very decided
challenge, L suppose, and then the
principals fought-shy, eh ?"
emo, no; the principal were in
serious earnest about it, L assure
you"
"Then the authorities interfered
and stopped the fun, perhaps ?"
"WrOng again. Not a soul threw
the least obstacle in the way of the
meeting.
'sWell, how was it, then ?''
"Why, the fact was, that when
we got to the ground-but perhaps
I'd better tell YOU the whole story"
Shy all Means" said Cation.
"Silence, gentlemen. Silence there.
Monsieur, raconte." And accord
ingly Monsieur recounted the fol-
lowing.
"When l was shooting in India, L
,.,nnSrrn1 n lntfnr
pressed in some such terms as these:
"tDEAR MORLEY have little
shooting party on, and want your
assistance. Come as soon as possible
to HarrisOn's bungalow; we will
make all arrangements there, and
you can go and call on O'Elaherty
at once. We are going to have a
shot at large game for chance.
Don't delay a moment. In these
cases the scent should be followed
while it's warm. The fellows a
BIG brute, and shall not escape me
if1 know it. He's caught a Tartar
this time. Well put an ounce of
lead into his carcass before he's
twenty-four hours older, or Pm not
not yours, ever,
DENNIS O'DOwD.'"
GA tiger, by Jove! thought. A
tiger at last.
az had been waiting for weeks in
the hope of getting a shot at tiger,
and had been repeatedly tantaliZed
with reports of one being somewhere
in the neighbOrhOOd. The Jungle
came down to within a very short
distance of the place were l was
staying, and the country looked the
very ideal of what tiger country
should be; but / had never had the
luck to get a shot at one yet, al
though for some time past there had
been rumOrs that tiger was about.
He had been seen here, and heard
of there; he had carried off sheep
in one place, and a bullock in an
other; but still no one had been
able to find out anything as to his
actual whereabouts sufficiently def
mite to make it of any use our going
after him. But now, thought /,
O'Dowd must have got the bearings
of the beast pretty accurately. |
could have wished that Dennis had
been a little less fiowery and 'trOp-
ical' i'm his account, but he always
was a funny dog; the drift of his
letter was clear enough; and if the
tigers having caught a Tartar was
not a mere figure of speech, the ami
NAL must be very fine one. The
part about O'Flaherty puzzled me
a little; it had always struck me
that he and O'Dowd were by no
means warm friends; O'F'laherty
was always chatting O'DOwd, and
O'DOwd always vOwing vengeance
against O'Flaherty. But it was all
fun, perhaps; and O'Flaherty was
great hand at tiger shooting, |
dared to say. At any rate, hurrah
for the tiger! And | hurried off to
HarriSOn's bungalow, where found
O'DOwd, with an expression of the
utmost determination upon his face,
drinking pale ale as if he meant it.
"Well, O'DOwd," said /, "we're
to have a shot at him at last, are
we?"
"That we are" said he; "or I'll
post him."
Post him! Post tiger! O'Dowd
was still at his jokes.
"Well! And when is it to be ?'
/ asked.
81 won't have it delayed longer
than tomorrow morning." an
sWered Dennis. "NOu must go to
O'Flaherty at once, and if he pre-
fers this evening faith all the bet
ter"
ooh it depends upon him, does
it?'' said L.
''Wen, of course it does" said
O'DOwd, "to a certain extent; but
not later than tomorrow morning,
mind. And now I'll tell you all
about it."
GAY, let's hear all about the
gentleman, said l, eagerly. "EIe's
been playing with us long enough.
Well put a bullet into his hide
now"
"That we will, my boy" returned
O'Dowd. "NOw just listen to me.
As l was walking up here last night,
/ met him sauntering
"What! You met the beast, you
say?''
"And you may call him basic, "
said O'Dowd. "He was that for
certain. He'd had too much I'll
take my oath of that"
"Glutted with carnage" l NUT
tered"
81 could see it at once" continued
O'Dowd. Il took his measure at a
glance"
"Well," said 7, anxious to know
his size, "and-"
"And | could see that he'd had a
deal more than a tasteOf the cratur,
though he carried it off in such a
mighty easy way"
Carried it off easily, did he? ,"
said "a sheep or Il bullock, of
course. What he was off with it to
his den, no doubt? ~
mo Doubt" said O'Dowd; "he
generally finishes his evenings in his
own den, the Unsuitable thief. Well,
when he saw me, he came towards
me, roaring"
Roaring! Came towards you -
/ exclaimed. "By JoVe! you took
il very coolly. Didn't you run ,"
Rum" said O'Dowd, as if uncer-
tain whether to be offended or not ;
"will you please to be serious, Nor
ley. This is no joke Pm telling you"
"No Joke! My dear O'Dowd, l
should think II 1t, indeed. What did
Won do ~