Iron County register., 1893-12-07
THE JHooT DEMON
MISSOURI

The Death of . Blind Terror .,s
giles Who Had Monkey for . Guids.
The great Jhoot demon described hv
Col. Downing in his narrative Of ai.
ventures in India was n t;ua- ,,h,..
ways were as mysterious as his ravaoas
were terrible. He could never he n. o.
ged. He killed every shikari. native or
European, who tried it. This trr.r-
lent beast had never even been seem
. and as he never mangled a BODY bnt
only sucked the blood through an
orlnce made over the jugular vein. the
terror the great Jhoot demon insnired
Is not surprising. He never forced a
: door, yet he got into house after honse
Two subalterns went out for him. and
the next day were found dead like the
rest.
one with his last strength had man.
aged to scratch the words: ..Loo,x ON.
ior a L. But no amount of con-
lecture could solve the riddle of tbese
words A famous shot, W ho once for =
wager shot one hundred tigers i'm
twelve months, met the same f.ta
He, too. left a creepy" and mysterious
message-the letters "a. M Then
the colonel goes He built himself an
u
Just as the full light of tho ,,oo,
1eu upon thesteam and Illuminated the
surroundings there was an almost in
audible rustic of leaves close behind
me, and, turning on the instant. I
saw little gray-brown paw very
cautiously putting aside the twigs OF
my shelter, and behind the paw I
could discern two small green ewes at
tentively regarding me-
"A lungoor,' I said to myself as it
vanished from view-a monkey. That's
what the lads and Dick Culverton
meant to tell us, and, by George,
there's mischief here Moved by a
sudden inspiration, for which 1 can
not to this day account, FASTENED
from the shelter and ascended the adj
joining tree. 1 had scarcely time to
seat myself comfortably upon one of
the lower branches when 1 saw the
lungoor returning, followed bv the
most repulsive looking monster nv
. eyes have ever beheld.
ou talk, Snapper, of your tiger be-
ing NANCY; this one was absolutely
naked, nude as a nut, bald as a bottle.
not a hair anywhere huge, CHASTITY,
glabrous monstrosity-a very Caliban
e of tigers, as big as bison, and as long
asa crocodile.
as the CHASTITY creature crept after
the monkey he followed the slightest
curve and deviation of his guide with
the delicate alacrity of a needle under
the influence of a magnet. The adroit-
pess displayed by the tiger was sud
denly converted into a subject of bor-
rified wonder, for as the brute ap-
preached the ambush he turned his
hideous face up to the moon, and 1
could see that his eyes were of dull,
dead white, without light, intelligence,
or movement. The creature was stone
blind. For all that, he evidently knew,
or thought he knew, what lay before
him. for the saliva of anticipation was
clinging to his wrinkled jaws like a
mass of cleaning icicles.
1.-THE monkey, when he had come
within jumping distance, gave n low
signal cry, made one vigorous spring
into my late shelter. alighted upon my
camp stool and sprang out again on
lowed by the tiger, who fell like an
avalanche upon the stool, crushing it
to match wood, and at once began to
feel about on all sides for his expected
victim. oN
-s6anee. beneath me
ia the broad light of a Fl u moon lay
the demon of the Jhoo 1 aimed
steadily at deep furrow htween the
shoulder blades and heldlmy breath
for the shot At that Ipment the
keen eyes of the monkey eight sight
of me, and the little anima uttered a
sshrill note OF warning; built was toe
late: INV finger was upon he trigger,
and fred both barrels inquick sue
xcession.-London Truth.