The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-02-17

rockets, and L can imagine now dis
gusted the tiger must have been to have
his siesta so strangely and so rudely
broken in upon.
"How those chaps YELL" laughed
Farquharson.
"Keep your eye on the Jungle,
Alick," L growled, "and let them roar
as much rs they like"
| l had been in eight box before
now, by having my attention diverted
from business at which strategists are
pl, <, tho psychological mo-
me
Not sign the tiger yet given of
his presence. ,ot blade of the long
! Jungle grass rred, save when rocket
fixed into it, tting it on fire.
The beaters were silent, signal for
the shikarree, who held up his hand,
while his head was perched on one side
like that of q bird, in the attitude of
listening.
"Hushr'
Then came the unmistakable cough
generally called roar of tiger.
1 glanced at Alick, to ascertain how the
music agreed with him. He had paled
little, but his eyes were flashing and
his lips compressed.
eve have him p he excitedly cried
Not yet, old boy. There's many
slip between the cup and the lip" I
retorted.
HE cannot escape"
"Not if we can help it, but if he's
lodia bagh-a game-killing tiger-we
may lose him yet"
There is, in my opinion, only one
variety of tiger, although the animal,
like all others that / am acquainted
with, is subject to slight variation of
appearance that may be more or less
accounted for by his peculiar habits,
which vary according to the locality and
nature of the country he ranges over.
In many parts of India over which /
| have hunted, the natives recognize three
kinds of tigers, which they distinguish
according to their habits and range, by
| the following names First, the lodia
bagh, or game-killing tiger secondly,
| the oontia bagh, which lives chiefly
upon domestic cattle and thirdly, the
admee khana wallah, or man-eater,
which latter, happily, are few and far
/ between.
/ A single tiger will kill bullock or
! buffalo every five days, if he gets the
/ chance, often eating the hindquarter
| the first night, and hiding the remain
| der in bush to consume at his leisure.
| Should he have been fired at, or dis
turbed ON his return to his quarry, he
becomes cunning, and great deal more
destructive, killing fresh bullock
/ whenever he wants food ; and / have
/ known tigers that have become 80 sus-
/ picious that they would not return to
/ an animal they had killed, although
they had only Tapped the hood, and
/ the bullock was almost untouched.
On the other hand, l have known a
| tiger returning day after day 10 the car
cass of the OK he had killed, and pick
| ing the bones clean, notwithstanding he
had been twice fired at by native shi-
: karree.
! But to return to my adventure.
The shikarree suddenly gave low
"coo" twice, which told me that he had
gotten on warm scent. Suddenly [
heard a slight noise like the cracking
of dry leaf. ] distinctly saw move
ment or waving in the high grass, as if
something was making its way toward
us.
Then l heard loud pluring sound,
and saw something twitching backward
and forward just behind a clump of low
/ brush and long grass, about forty yards
off.
Hes there !' / cried, in low tone,
to Alick, but without moving my eyes.
Il know it,"
keep cool !"
Hang it all. I'm as cool as let
tuce-leafW
Another second and We saw the ami
nal, its white chest shining like silver,
its ears laid back, and its open mouth
full of cleaning ivory teeth.
"rd like to stuff him in that posi-
tion," observed Farquharson.
"Hush!"
"Shall / let him have it ?"
"Not yet"
The tiger advanced about ten yards
or so in that low crouch which is the
prelude to the spring.
"Now, Alick!" l cried.
Farquharson fred at the second
spoke, letting the brute have one bar
rel.
On receiving the shot the tiger
/ doubled its head and paws into its
chest, and, turning completely over
head and heels, disappeared over a
boulder into the Jungle.
I've hit 'him!" triumphantly ex-
claimed my companion.
"You have"
81 fetched him between the eyes"
"Not a bit of it; you struck him in
the chest, and 1 don't think he's badly
hit"
"Clear that Jungle a little !" shouted
Farquharson, who, with all the rashness
of the neophyte, was for dashing after
the brute in hot haste.
While the men were tremblingly en-
gagged in obeying the orders, my prac-
ticed eye perceived q disturbance in the
grass little to the left of the spot at
which the tiger disappeared. A chuck +"
of the tongue against the teeth from
the shikarree, confirmed me.
"Look out, Alick, he's there!" 1
yelled for Farquharson was already
breasting-I have no other word for it
the grassy billows of the jungle in a
frantic eagerness to grapple with the
quarry.
Farquharson had reached an open
space, when the tiger leaped forth, and,
with O tremendous bound, buried its
head in Alexis throat, both their heads
going down together.
"Great Godl he's done for!" was my
exclamation, as the blood gave a mad
throb in my veins; then it became cold
, "a ice and I resolved to save the pool