Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-06-24

boy y down over the
shoulder quite to the breast bone.
A tiger did that-a royal Bengal-and
beauty he was, tell you! You can
see the skin any day in my married sis.
ter's sitting room. But it's story quite
worth telling and it has funny side, too,
that was thought quite worth repetition
at the time in the English papers, though
though they did not get at the inside
facts of the adventure.
1t was the period of the hot season
stagnation when VIC were in the consular
service at Madras, you know.
The English society Qncluding the
few Americans there) were doing little
else than sleep and yawn to pass the
time.
But everybody, the men especially,
were galvanized into excitement when
the news came in that tiger had carried
off first woman and then child during
the previous week from station about
fifteen miles in the interior, at the foot
of the mountains.
In half an hour hunt had been agreed
upon and servants were flying everywhere
about the town to arrange the details and
secure the accessories, such as teams aud
wagons, native porters and beaters; and
in the cool of the evening fifteen or
twenty gentlemen sportsmcn were en-
gagged in oiling gun locks, swabbing out
rifle barrels and in preparing generally
for the morrow's expedition.
1t was just dawn on the following
morning when we started-a curious cav
alcade of fifty or more, IN which the
white faces were largely in the minority.
Some were on horseback, some in carts
drawn by bullocks, which in that country
were very different from what are known
as such at home.
Here they use the small and slender
gray zebu with its curious hump, and
known to the menageries Of the west rs
the ssacred bull of India" and said to
be regarded with veneration in the East.
There is little to tell of the hunting
expedition. We arrived at the station
or plantation and found that not only
was the descent of the tiger true, but
that since then he had MANNED and all
but carried oil an able bodied coolie, who
had been rescued only in the very nick
OF time.
We therefore spread our beaters out in
a circle covering wide bit of the neigh
boring Jungle. while our party distribu.
ted itself in line that formed the chord
Of this arc, towards which the native
btaters were gradually converging.
There was no result, however, in the
way of tigers, during the two days in
which we continued these operations
from one locality to another in the neigh
borhood around the station.
True, We bagged innumerable game
both feathered and four footed, but OF u
kind that was only commonplace for ln-
dian sportsmen. Ii was therefore with
AGATE disappointment that we gave up on
the second day all hope OF our. quest, aud
early on the following morning turned
our faces homeward, calculating To arrive
at Madras that afternoon.
OF the party big Major Gallanton, Of
her Majesty's Fusiller stationed al
Madras, seemed the most disap'
pointed. As was this big hearted
fellows wont. he vented his chagrin Ia
great deal Of clustering with his deep
bass voice and used much expressive
language, IN a way calculated to impress
stranger with the belief that words
and not deeds were the majors strong
point.
Hut In this regard Major dallanton
was an anomaly and a surprise
Loquacious flre eater ia times OF peace
aud quiet, ia the moment Of responsibility
OF danger, had no word 10 utter eN'
cept that Of incislve command OF wise
direo,ion-ealm, sileat and ready foi
aay emergency.
About = mile from Madras there Was q
little bungalow, commanding sles Of
tho sea, which had beeome a soFt oi
house "a public entertainment, popula'
vita the better class of Fesidoals a. e.
sort fog liiilas and such litlle excursions
as ge would eall pleales, The saf1
rounding groves aad forests had beea
imptovel toF short distance until u
VAS a solt oi slid palk, and oa shla lil1ls
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