Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-09

night to 2 o'clock the tiger was
not quiet over FIVE minutes at a
time. He would sit and snarl and
whine and lick his wounded paws for
time, and then go circl1ng around the
room and growing in a way to make me
shiver. As he passed along the partition,
rubbing his head against it, bis eyes had
a CLINT in them which haunted me for
months afterward.
Upon the approach of daybreak the
man-eater began TO grow more restless.
1t was time for him to be off to his lair,
but he was a prisoner. Just as the first
faint light came he tried the window
again, and his efforts to get out were so
determined that thought he would sue
coed. When he finally drew back he
was ripe for mischief. We could make
him out plainly now, and as he dropped
back to the floor the native gasped out:
''By my life, Sahib, he IS the largest
tiger in all India"
l thought sd, too, and subsequent
measurements astonished everybody. In
most cases the man-eater IS an old beast,
with most of his teeth gone. This tiger
was full grown, not over five years old,
and every tooth was perfect. When he
dropped to the floor he spit like mad
cat, wheeled with snarl, and at his
second jump he struck the partition like
a battering ram. He not only struck it,
but he stood on his hind legs and pulled
and shook, and it must have gone down
had we not attacked him. The native
Of hio
with the stick, and / cut half way
through the other with a blow of the
knife. The beast let go and fell back.
It was now broad day, and we could see
him plainly. A photograph of his head
and face would make woman shiver.
He backed off, laid his ears fiat to his
head, showed every tooth, and his eyes
wandered up and down the partition
looking for a weak spot l expected
a rush, but he was not quite ready.
He made three circles of the room, and
then, springing like a flash, he fastened
to the bamboos again. If we had not
been ready the partition could not have
held him more than minute. He used
teeth and claws, and the whole hut was
shaken with his exertions. I got in a
savage cut on his hind leg, and stabbed
him in the shoulder, and the native hit
him an awful whack on the nose. When
he let 90 this time he was done for. He
1etreated to a corner and howled and
whined like puppy, and Captain White
now called out to know the situation.
explained that the tiger could not get
out, as I could now see the silver which
obstructed, and he opened the rear shut
ter and passed me IN a rifle. When I
took aim at the tigers head he was
moaning and shivering and whimpering,
and | almost felt ashamed to shoot him.
Not knowing: whether the dead man.
eater had a mate or not we secured the
jungles for his lair, and found it in the
ravine not more than half a mile away.
He had not devoured any Of his victims
at the spot where he rested, but all had
been eaten within radius of a few rods.
From what we could discover it was con-
Guided that he was SOLITARY" and as
the village suffered no more, this must
have been the case. In removing the
skin we found spot on the shoulder
where the beast had been severely cut
with a knife. The slash was fully four
inches long and quite deep, and the hair
had not grown out to cover scar. Ninety
nine chances out of a hundred the native
who had inflicted the cut had been eaten.
-NeO York Sun.