Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-03-23
KILLING A EIGRHs
4 Beautiful Animal Loses Her Life In a
Wild Eastern Jungle
a. Browns aSbiksr Stories" y
d. broWn's -shlkar Stories. ]


u. Browns @Shikar Stories. D
Myself and a brother officer reached
during our trip place called ALarOuda,
situated on the banks of a river. q
tributary Of the Vein Gunga, If 1 re-
member rightly, In the Chanda district
We here heard that q tiger, tigress,
and three cubs, frequente6 a strip OF
Jungle on the banks of the river: the
tigress, moreover had by native report
been magnified into a man eater and
was said to have killed a man the day
previous to our arrival. This, indeed,
proved to be the fact, but that the poor
wretch lost his life is due entirely to
his own carelessness and foOlhardiness.
The man in question had a small patch
of cultivation bordering the cover IN
which the tiger generallylay up. The
cubs In their gambOls had done con-
siderable damage to the crop, rolling
about IN 1t and breaking down the
plants. In order to prevent their max
ing his field their playground the
owner, in spite Of being advised to the
contrary, announced his determination
of setting fire to the long grass at the
edge of the Jungle. This intention he
accordingly proceeded to carry into
effect, and had hardly kindled the
flames which were to insure him from
future damage when the tigress, which
had been lying up within few yards
Of him, rushed out and knocked him
over, killing him almost instantaneOusly.
| She, however, left him and never ate
any of the body, as she would have
! done had she been q real man-eater.
| The evening of our arrival we had
/ three or four hailas tied out and the
| following morning had the satisfaction
| of hearing one was killed. Accord
| inglv. about II o'clock, we started with
some eighty heaters for the scene of
action. The carcass of the calf had
/ been dragged by the tigress into a
/ small nullah that debOuched into the
main river; about half mile farther
/ on there was a similar nu1lah, and be-
/ tween these two we took up our posi-
! tiOns In trees and some fifty yards
! apart. The beat had not commenced
more than five minutes, and was gaz-
| ing eagerly to my front when L saw
! the tigress, followed by three cubs, not
! quite half grown and about the size OF
/ big mastiffs, coming straight toward
me. She was slouching sulhily along,
! evidently much put out at being
! disturbed, and the cubs trOtted
/ after her, one of them every now and
then stopping, with pricked ears and
! gazing back toward the beater; then it
would scamper on after its mother. 1t
was a pretty sylvan scene, and the sun
light falling on their sleek striped
hides as they moved nOiselessIy over
the dead leaves that carpeted the
! ground glittered and quivered in fan
tastic rays. They came straight on for
my post, and got within some ten
| yards of me when, with an upward
curl of her lip and twitching of her
| tail, that weIl-knOwn sign Of irritation
which always means mischief on the
! part of the feline race, the tigress
stopped to listen, and, as she turned
her head back, gazing toward the
heaters, I aimed at her neck between
its juncture with the shoulders and the
ears and fired. She dropped in her
tracks without a groan and never
stirred. It seemed as if in a tWinkling
the ground had, as it were, been cut
from under her legs, at the same mo-
ment depriving her of life with the
speed of electricity. I only on one
other occasion ever saw any large
animal pass so suddenly from life tC
death without even a twitch or move
/ ment of a muscle.