New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-06-23

handing him cheroot (for theniccers
like you to be civil) sbe sure and drive
every thing that is in the jungle SOU
westerly, for if l am far away from
Ramchunder and the guns, when they
break covert, there'll be a blank space
| left for me at the mess-1able to-mor-
row.. When said this, Dostee Poo
loo showed all his box of teeth, and
saw that he was game to do just what
| wished, so long as he hadn't to fight
the tiger himself.
Having planted my old khansamah
with Ramchunder and the cold fowls.
champagne. and the doubled- barrellpd
rifles near an old palm tree, with strict
;njunctions not to move, ] stole of
down the nuliah whisf-whish, as the
natives say-which means very gen
thy.
II suppose I had not gone more
than 300 yards from where left the
khansamah, before a path to the
right, trodden down as if by wild bears
through tract of tall, dry, dusty jun
gle grass, burnt by the sun to pale
straw color, attracted my attention
The beaters seemed to rouse nothing,
and began to think the story of the
white tiger all humbug and a sham.
''The path led on past little tope
OF cocoanut palm, strung with fruit.
Curiosity and a natural love OF ad-
venture carrying me on, followed it
for some hundred yards till saw the
patch few yards before me open out
into a sort OF natural amphitheatre,
beyond which lay the dry bed of a
small ~ater-course, the surface Of
which, if you'll believe me, sir, was one
vast tangle of enormous jungle flow
ers-great crimson fellows, big as tea.
cups, and smelling OF musk and patch
oui; ropes OF creeping plants binding
tree to tree, and strung with scented
yellow blossoms and trails of thin IS
like tulips, only as large as my hat,
and with purple-bell flowers every
half inch down the stalk.
Gin small open space surrounded
by deep Moonje grass, and only visi-
bic from the higher clump of ground
where they summed themselves, strut
ted half dozen peacocks. had just
knelt down and covered the biggest of
them with my rit1e-a splendid fellow,
with a great fan-tail, all green and
purple-when, 10 and behold! what
should come skipping from tree to
tree but a whole tribe of monkeys,
chattering, chasing each other, hold
ing each others tails, and cutting such
capers that it was all l could do to
keep from laughing out and spelling
the whole game.
81 had scarcely readjusted my aim,
which these monkeys had thrown out,
before, from out of the jungle close to
me, ran three little spotted deer and a
wild hog, and began racing about as if
that spot was their regular play
ground, and yet with sort of fasci-
mated stare and alarm that made me
suspect mischief. l determined, how
ever, coute qui coute, to see the thing
out, so drew the brandy flask from
my No. 13 pocket, and took sup to
steady my hand. Before had put it
back, sure enough, out between two
champa trees came a tremendous
beast OF a boa constructor, as large
round as bolster, and 70 feet long,
if he was an inch-his scales wet and
shining with the dew, and he wrlthing
and undulating like an enormous cat
erpillar.
IF you'll believe me, sir, surprised
as was, / had still presence of mind
enough to aim firm and steady at his
nearest eye, thinking what a triumph
it would be to take him home to poor
Twenty When what Ishould see
about twenty feet beyond this beast
but some strange object waving in the
grass! lowered it with my rifle, and
was just going to press the trigger with
my forefinger, when I heard rush,
and an enormous tiger, clearing the boa
constructor, leaped space Of nearly
40 feet las afterwards measured) J,
before could readjust my piece.
cit was the white tiger-the- man
eater-I felt sure OF it at the first
glance; a splendid fellow, full Ii feet
long, of a pale tawny cream color
striped with dark brown his chest al
most white.
'Hf you'll believe me- sir, as he held
me and shook me in his mouth, felt
no pain and no terror, but a sort of
almost pleasant benumbed drowsiness
and strange curiosity as to how the
OfuCe WOulO eat me. cOulQ near the
deer, monkeys and snake scuttle off as
he shook me, as a cat does a mouse
or a terrier rat. Then tried to
get pistol from pocket No. 10, and
tainted.
"Before I came to, full half an hour
must have elapsed. There lay in a
nest OF dry MoonJe grass. felt that
the monster was still over me. I felt
his pestilential breathing on my face
even in my swoon. Yes, thereh he was,
his enormous length reclining beside
me, his striped tail sweepingacross my
feet at every vibration-his head turn
ed from me. If you'll believe me, sir,
he had actually munched and chewed
the whole Of my left leg from the toe
to the knee; he had eaten about three
feet of it, sir pardon the awkward
ness of the expression), during my
swoon."
"Chewed; Major Monsoon?" I cried
in an angry, expostulatory voice.
| 'Why, there are your two legs as sound
as minen'
t.PoOh! DOOhl nv dear sir. said he.