The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-04-18

then returned to the village, leaving to
oar attendants the t,slz of SHINING the
tiger and bringing in the hide. The ola
magistrate could not abase himself
enough for the falsehood he had told us,
but his apology was the most remark
able feature He gave us a good meal
of curried chicken, bamboo sprouts,
fish and some excellent tea, and as we
ate told us the following story:
'sOne cannot be too careful about AMI
mails" said he. "They may be very
good animals, and ones own parents
might have passed into item. Think
how sad it would be if one should kill
a relative, thinking it was tiger. This
tiger which you killed today never did
us any harm, only taking goat or dog
once in while and we thought him
good tiger until today, when he seized
the daughter of Sung Taso. We had
bitter experience in the village once
which shows the truth of what [ say
Our city has been guarded for many
years by good tiger. He gave warn
ing of his first visit by stopping outside
of the village and roaring, to give us
time TO get into our houses and get out
of the way. Then he came in leisurely,
looked around, and seizing goat, made
off. We knew at once that he was a
good tiger, and did not attempt to drive
him away. Once or twice a week he
would come and get goat or Dig, al
ways roaring before he came and after
he had gone. He generally came in the
day time, while bad tigers usually come
at night.
zone night we heard our good tiger
roaring fearfully outside the village, but
he would not come in, staying outside
and roaring fearfully. We knew that
something was wrong, and we went out
side and listened. We heard the rush
ing of flood in the river, and we had
barely time to escape into the hills be-
fore the flood came and washed the vii
lage away. Then we knew that our
good tiger had come to warn us, and
recognized that he held the soul of
great philanthropist who had died only
a few days before the tiger made his
rirst appearance. This was not the only
instance of he good tigers watchful
care. There were many such. He came
back when our village was rebuilt, and
we were very glad to give him the few
goats and dogs he took.
"The next morning we missed the
tiger, and we heard nothing of him for
two weeks. Then some of the villagers
who had started on tourney through
the mountain pass you can see yonder,
came back with the news that the tiger
was in the pass roaring night and day,
and that he had driven them back and
would not let them go through. We be-
lleved there was some good reason for
this, so we drove some goats up in the
pass so that the tiger might have some
thing to eat, and then waited his return.
1t was over two months before the tiger
left the pass and returned to his haunts
rear the village, and not till then did we
learn his purpose in staying so long IN
the pass. The cholera had been raging
in the next valley, and our tiger had
gone to the pass to keep the cholera de-
mon from coming into our village and to
keep our villagers from going into the
other valley and catching the disease
You will now understand our grief and
sorrow when party of brutal English
men came into our valley and killed our
good tiger, who had saved our lives so
many times"