The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-19
THE LADY AND THE teofAs7
An Exciting Adventure in - ."G'A"

Er@@a!oa.
In an Indian bungalow cvts1 hcdr ON
has a small ante-room attached ia y Licii
the important function OF bathing is per.
formed.
Tie floor is Of cement and u~ncarprt''d,
to allow Of sp!ashiuc, aaI around the tub
are placed the Eh3rras, or e&rtAenp pots Of
water which are rtgliret for tie bath.
The little room has Always twodoo's, one
openipe ON the outer air, 10 admit the
bhecsti with his supplyo of ye;ster, the o-.-er
opening into the bedroom.
On the eveningin question, just as dusk
was falling, 1 had finished the unpacking
of n box in my bedroom and WAS moving
away. when | fancied I heard II slight
sound in tho bathroom. It WAS an I'M
usual hour for tie bheesti's visit, 50 |
opened the door. and, to my horror, saw
lust in front of me the beautiful sleek
back of u large leopard, which was
croucbed on the floor and driaking out OF
one OF the ghurras.
The room was so small that found
myself quite close to the leopard, and
could, indeed, have touched tie spots on
its glossy coat from where | stood. | was
too frightened to move, ard stood per-
fectly still, and, fortunately for me the
outer door by which the CT ATTIRE had en-
tered still stood wide open, aad with a
single bound it cleared the threshold and
disappeared up the hillside.
Had the door blown to or been closed
from the outside bya servant, the animal
would have had no resource but to seek
an exit by the doorway in which | was
standing, and the knowledge of my MIR
row escape made us very careful ever
after about shutting up in the afternoon.
A few nights later we were awakened
by hearing the watchman call out loadly
that there was q leopard III Tie vcranda,
and we ran to the window III time 10 see
the waving of the branches where the
beast had sprung out among thetrco3.
The bearer, who was lying rolled up in
his blankets i'll the same verlIda, slept
soundlyon meanwhile, unconscious of his
proximity to the stealtay foated creature.
These leopards are o9wardly creatures,
and will never attack Il human being il
they can avoid il; their special fancy Is
for little dogs, and they will so haunt the
n~eighborhood of any house where dogs
are kept that the Observation-Disclosures
to prevent the little q~Hadrupeds falling
victims to the big ones.
AS the weather became better they
grew less bold, and it wits ~onlytorTard the
end of the season that we saw them again.
When snow fell on the farther hills they
were driven to seek food lower down, ana
then again they began to infest the sta
ton.
Often in the month Of October, when
coming home late at night, l have heard
the hoarse sort of purring noise they
make as they rub their side. like huge
cats, against the trunks of trees. The
men carrying their dandi eight palan-
quin) would then step out, and talk very
loud, to keep up their courage, while the
mate would flourish his lanternandshout
No leopard would come near So noisy a
party, and the only danger on such ocea-
sions is of the men taking q panic and
dropping the dandi, when the situation
would be awkward. This, however, never
happened to me, and / was equally fortu-
nate when riding.-Chambers's Journal.