Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

grOWu1g ana Surg ing, DuC the uSnb ulu nOh last over sixty seconds. Then the man wolf sprang up, shook himself, ana uttered yell of triumph, and after threatening us for Q couple of minutes re-entered the jungle. We went out to the body of the hyena, and its condition gave us a strong idea of the man wolfs fighting powers. One ear was torn off, both eyes plucked cut, two legs broken, its tongue bitten nearly off, and it had several horrible gashes in the belly. It was plain that the creature was a match for lion or tiger, and we began to feel very uneasy. By the advice of the head man we built several extra fires and kept sharp lookout
 1.-The fellow is evidently very angry" ex D aimed the old man. You are white men and he is not pleased at your coming. Per haps he has been told you are here to capture him"
 "But who could have told him!"
 'He,had cousin who was turned into vulture for striking his father, and another cousin who was turned into a serpent foJ cursing our faith. Either one may have car ried the man wolf the news"
 We placed sentinels on the wath when ready to turn in, but everything passed oil quietly until about midnight Then sue cession of shrieks and screams and roarS brought every man, woman and child out of sleep with bound. had no other thought than that the-man wolf had seized one of the sentinels, but as l leaped out of the hut one called to me:
 ''Sahib, you have caught the beast in your trap!"
 It was mile, as have told you, from the village to the spot where we had set the trap, and yet tho screams seemed close at hand When the news went round that there was no danger the village soon quieted down, but thero was no further sep for any one. Whether caught or not, the creature seemed fastened to one locality for the remainder of the night, and of all the proceedings l ever .;new wild beast to engage in his were the worst. Ee had a voice as strong as a lions, and he was not quiet for two minutes at Q tir,o. He roared, screa,neA shI'ieled, la- mented and growled, and the wind brought us every sound. He still had fuil head of steam on when daylight came, and after a nasty breakfast a party of twenty of us moved in his direction. He probably heard us coming, for his anger was freshly aroused, and pretty soon we could hear him tearing at the bushes.
 am free to say that the first sight of the man wolf, caught by the hind foot in the trap, and hanging head downward from the swaying sapling, too, tue courage out of me sooner than as if had met tiger face to face on the path. He lung about three feet from the earth, and cs far as he could reach in every direction he had pulled up the bushes by the roots. Ee was as supple as a monkey, and could double himself up and reach the trap, but, strong as he was, be could not spring the jaws open and release his foot. There was a foot of chain before he coull get to the rope, and the way he bit oI that chain made Us hold our breaths. Had it been of soft iron have no doubt he would nave cut it in two. He had been caught when we first heard him scream out, and Lad been suspended for over four hours. You would have thought he would be exhausted with pain and struggling, but he was not. As soon as we came near him he made such tremendous effort to get away, or to get at Gs, that all the natives fed in terror.
 We quickly understood that we could do nothing with the beast until he had lost his zti'ength and temper, and we returned to the eillage and left him hanging. All that day Ee yelled out every two CT three minutes, and all that night we heard from him at in- tervals. On the second morning he was still dgly, but late in the afternoon hunger and pam m stered him. We brought up a cage. got threo fs.a.,-tv,es around ana titf- ally made him a prisoner. His foot and leg were terribly swollen, and he made but little resistance.
 We now had opportunity to look him over. He was certainly Q man wolt-that is, a na- ti e child had been carried of vixen young and brought up with the wild beasts for twenty years or more. This creature had a
  cred with coarse hair, the teeth were long. the hands out of shape, and he had learned to go as four footed animal Ho was indeed horrible looking sight, but the worst fca- ture about him was his eyes No true wild beast ever saw through a more ugly pair. There was a villainous squint to them a-d the balls seemed to be aflame We were con graduating ourselves on his easy capture when the head man replied:
 "Wait a bit Wait until his strength re turns. You will never get him away from here"
 We drew the cage to the village and gave the beast food and water He readily ac- cepted both, and his conduct was ls humble as we could desire. He was biding bis time, however. On the third day he minutely ez- amined the construction of the cags and 
 thought be was unobserved On the fifth day he began to snarl and grCwl and show his temper, and on the sixth we started off with him, the cage being dragged by twelve na- tives Everything went well up to noon when we stopped for a rest and bite to eat As all were sitting down the man wolf sud denly sprang out of corner where Le had been sulking, seized bar in either hand, and with tremendous effort wrenched them out. Olo he retained for weapon Gs he leaped to the earth. It was so sudden that no one was prepared. He did not seek escape, but re- venGc, and before we could pick up our guns and open fire he had killed three of the na- tives and severely wounded two others. Ee w2s still laying about him screaming with rage when one of the white men gavc hin charge of buckshot ard c,dcd bis career. Ie had struck only single blows, and yet each one had been hard enough to cripple or Eil. But for our guns he would have killed every man in the party.-New York Sun.
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