Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-03
4 Demon Tiger.

Col. Bowlong in mis- narrative OF adven-
lures in India, was tiger whose ways
were as mysterious as his ravages
were terrible. He never could be bag
ged. He killed every Sbikari, native
or European who tried it. This trucu-
lent beast had never been seen, and as
he never mangled body, but only
sucked the blood through an oritice
made over the jugular vein, the terror
the great Jhoot demon inspired is not
surprising. He never forced 4 door,
yet he got into house after house. Two
subalterns went out for him and the
next day were found dead like all the
rest.
One with his last strength had man
aged to scratch the words "Look out
for l. But no amount of con-
lecture could solve the riddle Of these
words. a famous shot, who once for
a wager shot 100 tigers in y months,
met the same fate. He too, left q
creepy" and mysterious message-the
letters "a. NJ" Then the colonel gees.
He built himself an ambush and
watched.
"Just as the full light of the moon
fell upon the stream and illuminated
the surroundings there was an almost
inaudible rustic of leaves close behind
me, and turning on the instant, l saw
q little gray-brown paw very cautious
ly putting aside the twigs Of my shell
ter, and behind the paw | could dis
Germ two small green eyes attentively
regarding me.
ga lungoor,' 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 l cannot
to this day &C count, l fastened from
the shelter and ascended the adjoining
tree. had scarcely time to seat my
self comfortably upon one Of the lower
branches, when l saw the lungoor re-
turning, followed by the most repul-
sive looking monster my eyes have
ever bebeld.
"You talk, Snapper, of your tiger
being NANCY, this one was absolutely
naked, nude as nut, bald as a bottle:
not hair anywhere-a huge, CHASTITY,
glabrous monstrosity-a very Calban Of
tigers, as big as bison and as long as
crocodile.
''As the ghastly creature crept after
the monkey he followed the slightest
curve and deviation of his guide with
the delicate alacrity of needle under
the influence of q magnet. The adroit-
ness displayed by the tiger was sudden
ly converted into subject of Mortified
wonder, for as the brute approached the
ambush he turned his hideous face up
to the moon, and l could see that his
eyes were of dull dead white without
light, intelligence or movement. The
creature was stone blind. For all that
be evidently knew, or thought he knew,
what lay before him, for the saliva OF
anticipation was clinging to his wrinkled
Jaws like mass of cleaning icicles.
"The monkey, when it had come with
in jumping distance, giving low signal
cry, made one vigorous spring into my
late shelter, alighted upon my camp
stool and sprang out again on the other
side. He was instantly followed by the
tiger, who fell like an avalanche upon
the stool, crushing it into matchwood
and at once began to feel about on all
sides for his expected victim.
"Now was my chance-beneatn me
in the broad light ofthe moon lay the
Demon of the Jhoot. aimed steadily
at deep furrow beneath the huge
shoulder blades and held by breath for
the shot. AT that moment the keen
eyes of the money caught sight of me,
and the little animal uttered shrill
note Of warning; but it was too late,
my finger was upon the trigger, and l
fired both barrels in quick succession"