The Springdale news., 1889-10-04
WOMEN AN TIGERS.
Narration of Femini Exploits in Bag ging Big ,me.

ging Big ,me.
 he method of bagsg tigers in Ne
 pat is peculiar to th'country, says
 EvaYyndham Quin inc Nineteenth
 Gentry, and has this eat advantage ! that &e is nearly alwa. successful in
 shootig any tiger wfh has been
 marke6down. Our frid who is qui-
 etly diasting the baffa which he | ate last sght must be lAg not far
 from his kill. So advance with somt three hundre elephants in line and graduall close in upon him, sqoulder to sheder, in a
 huge ring, from which he,as small chance of escape As the rcle con- tains a fairly large piece oiungle a
 "shikari' goes in on his chant to ascertain exactly where theiger is lying. and having found himt home
 we-six guns disposed on the how dah elephants-ad advance for fray. Those who are accustomed tiger shooting and think no more f bag ging Master Stripes with weplaced bullet than most do of kuoekinover a woodcoek in home cover wihot re- alize the anxious feeling one xperi- | enees when for the first time me is perched on top of an elephant, oking about in thick undergrowth d ex- peetiug to see d tiger bound u of every bush. At last out he rushcwith a mighty roar, and dashes roun and round the ring, vainlY trying toforce his way through, while all tn, ele- phants trumpet loudly, with their trunks in the air, and their ma houts shriek and yell, so that on re- quires all ones nerve to fire an hit him under such alarming chum- stances. But it is really a case of now or never, and 1 tae 2 shot at tigress as she is gallopiu by and am lucky enough to hit her thu back with my first shot, and agan il the shoulder with my second one whereupon she charges straight a ou elephant, but only 10 receive he death blow from a second rifle il tn howdah One can not help feeling s)rr to see such a. noble beast laid low. bt so great are the reioicings when sh is brought triumphantly into caml thrown across an elephants back, tha ones regrets are soon forgotten in u pride and delight of having shot one first tiger.
 After this. first days sport we co tinue to have good luck, especial that red-letter day when, quietly mo ing across country with a line elephants. we manage to surround f1 tigers. On entering the ring We fin only catch sight Of one tigress. whie is cleverly hit in the shoulder by Mi' Durand; then. to our astonishmei tigers seem to crop np in all dine tions-one pair of green eyes ghI from beneath the grass at one poin and then yet another pair few yard on, so that finally we realize there ar four big cubs. besides the tigress, ga loping among our elephants in u ring. Such \ bowling, growing snarling. shouting, trumpeting, an firing off of rifles can never have bee heard before. Wounded and furiol the tigers take refuge in small nullal and there is some difficulty in tinishir them off; but at last all five are our and piling them on to various el | plants we return to camp in the fadir light. the sun sinking peacefully
 a glow of crimson and gold behind u trees, while the moon rises in the ca and glints through the dark boughs we wend our way home. By the can fire are laid out our five tigers, and
 is with some pride we examine the soft. golden winter coats and discu again and again by the flickering ligI the excitement of the days sport.