Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-05

2s was an impossible attempt. and that l of the morning was mere random | chance; nevertheless they both counted as misses. If he were to escape me . third time I might as we'll bury my rife and retire from the world of sport. While was refecting upon such mat ters, the shouts of the beaters, al- though faint were clearly distinguished from the cooing of countless doves. which always cause confusion in a drive until the men close up. Present ly the wild cries and yells sounded al most close to me, as the beaters arrived on the sky line of the hills, and began to descend toward the glen which l commanded. The. tiger would probably make for the j&ngles where he had killed the buffalo. from which we had driven him in the morning; in that case he must cross the river and must be opposed by line of stops.
 was keeping a sharp lookout, when suddenly splendid sight pre- 6ented itself A tiger which looked enormous emerged at trot from the jungle on my left, and for moment halted in the dry bed of the rlver be- tween the forest-ccvered hills. He was then in bright green grass about two 
 rounded stones that formed the rivers bed. would not fire. as he was quite i one hundred and forty yards distant, and although knew that l could hit him, having already taken a steady rest with my elbow on the knee, the shot would not have been sufficiently accurate to kill him without further trouble. Having stood and listened at- tentively upon the edge of the stony channel, which was in that place about thirty yards in width, he determined to cross into the jungles upon the oppo- site hillside; without further hesitation he walked quickly to ward the other bank. This was terrible disappoint- ment; he would escape from the beatl
 At this moment heard a sound like a short cough from a tree nearly fac ing the advancing tiger. He stopped suddenly in t.e middle of the channel
 ''Well done; stop!' I inwardly ex- claimed.
 The tiger stood and listened; then. turning abruptly to his left, he trotted along the center of the dry channel, direct for my position. Again he halted, as though he had changed his intention, and turning to the right he made straight for his first direction to the opposite bank. A crack was heard as though some person had clapped his hands The tiger again halted and listened with keen suspicion. "Ha! Ho!" a voice uttered from a treetop on the rivers bank. This decided the tiger; he turned quickly round and trotted back into the jungle from whence he came. Bravo! Stop Beau tifully done!" We had him once more within the beat in thick jungle, and the beaters were closing upin a half-circle.
 felt sure that the tiger, having been turned twice, would not attempt that same place again, therefore l turned my stool to face the front as l knew that he could not remain long without either breaking back through the beat CTS or showing himself upon the open. Suddenly heard man clap his hanis from a tree on my extreme right; by this knew that the tiger was headed, when trying to break out in that di- rection. In less than a minute heard 'Ho, ho,' in another spot; the stops were behaving splendidly; without them would have had no chance. The line of beaters yelling their loud
 est and two tom-toms rattling like the roll upon a drum had now closed into three parts of circle, and began tc fear that the tiger had managed tC
 slinl1 away between the stops. Sud denly I heard three short but terrific
 roars close in my right front. In ar instant I knew that he had broken ,, cover; although I could not see him owing to the thick limb of the tree just