The record-union., 1893-12-16
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moving rapidly enough to give him the
appearance of being entirely brown, just
as the quick turning of colored disk
leaves only white impression to the
eye. He came with head up, a superb
sight, and when ten yards from us
scented us, as well as the bull, and
paused, evidently torn with conflicting
doubts, and uncertain how best to crafty
his insaUiable stomach gorged with hu-
man blood from over forty victims the
night before. His lips parted, showing a
set of sharp, ugly teeth; his skin wrinkled,
especially over his forehead; his nOstrils
quivered, distendiug to their widest at
the prospect of such delicaces, and his
eyes cleaned with cruel anticipation. 1t
seemed, lying there within one of his
bounds, as though he took a long time to
decide. AT length he crouChed ready 10
spring, but whether upon the bull or us
it was impossible yet to tell. My gun
was at my shoulder, the barrel pointed
between those wicked eyes. There was a
moment of intense suspense. The poor
bull tried TO break away from its chain,
and, falling miserably, uttered heart
rending sound, and lowered his horns
toward the tiger to ward off death for
little, at least. The tiger drew himself
together like a steel spring, and bounded
upon him with such force that he threw
his massive shoulders, the cruel beast
opened his throat with the precision Of
butcher, and then lay fiat on his stom-
ach in the midst of his feast. The bull
made Intellectual efforts to roll over and
smother his assassin, but the latter was
not to be shaken off. The blood poured
into his thirsty throat in great gulps; 1t
was frightful to see. He opened the
stomach of the now passive bull, and alb
al nf
smoking flesh here and there, in terri
BILE frenzy, drunk with pleasure, and te-
verish with a nameless lust.
Once cold, the body lay neglected, and
the monster turned to us! Could he be
hungry after such feast of Sardanapa-
lus? Probably not In fact, we saw him
advancing slowly, his tongue hanging
out, his eyes heavy, his gait almost stag
gering, toward the pool of holy water. [
could not help laughing aloud at the sue
cess of my plan, and my companions
gazed at me in terror, thinking l had lost
my senses under the last halt-hour's ex-
element.
AS the poison 1 had poured into the
pool began 10 affect the beast, he uttered
several piercing yet half-strangled cries,
and, with few rapid cOntortions, fell
over dead.
The next morning the whole village
their admiration of our prowess, but,
finding our guns had not been discharged,
and that it was at the sacred pool the
imam -eater'' fell, they experienced that
religious terror to which uneducated races
are so susceptible, and bowed before the
priest, whom they found mightier than
the beasts of the forest. This feeling was
encouraged by my giving him the skin
and teeth of the tIger-the former meas
nriOp fOur wards from pOSA to tail-a1t6
we left them performing one of their Gu
rious dances in honor OF their all-puissant
deities.
They tell queer story in India of an
Englishman who came out to add q
tigers head Of certain size o his already
large collection, armed simply with a
full suit of plate armor and long dag
ger.
Clothed in steel from head to foot, dag
ger IN hand, this-to say the least-Org-
nal hunter walked at night along the
shore of pond where game came to
drink. On the second night huge tiger
sprang upon him from behind aud feiled
him at blow. The cool Englishman
lay perfectly still, feigning to be dead,
while the tiger broke its claws and
strained its jaws on this man OF iron!
Finally, seeing just the right opportunity
the Englishman plunged his poisoned
dagger deep into the tigers heart, and
the latter fell without a sound. When
demonstrated with for waiting so long in
such dangerous embrace he calmly re-
piled:
Il wanted to be sure that his head was
exactly the right size before killing such
a superb specimen, and having satisfied
myself on this point l waited a moment
to strike home without injuring the part
L was after n'-The Whole Family.