The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10

ten different traps for him. the best I
ever saw made, but he was the ''dyest"
tiger ever saw or heard of, and tan
talizingly refused to walk into any Of
them. He would walk around each of
them carefully, sniff the air suspicious
ly, glare at the bleating lamb and then
trot off, even though he must have
been hungry many time. We could
often have killed him, but that was
not our game. We had hunted for him
three weeks and were well-nigh dis
couraged. We had, too, drawn our
lines about him and shut him off from
all sorts of prey, yet he would not nib
BILE at our bait.
One night, to our surprise. he turned
the tables and hunted us. We were all
completely tagged out by our exer-
tons and dozed after supper within
the circle of fire which we had built to
keep out savage beasts and drive away
the equally savage insects with which
that country is infested. A dozen
natives and one of my white men
were on guard. Suddenly there was
a rushing sound like that of q
whirlwind. and in dashed Jupiter
over the fire line something l
never knew the widest kind of wild
animals do beforehand quicker than
you could say Jack Robinson he had
one of my natives in his teeth and bore
him off into the deepest recesses Of the
jungle. The trick was done SO sudden
ly that none of us had chance to pull
q trigger if we wanted to. However.
we hunted him for fair in turn now.
This time we had luck, but not until a
further calamity occurred. We beat
every bush for miles around as big as
tigers body, and by daybreak had
forced Jupiter to change his base a
dozen times. Finally we drove him
along a pathway in which was one Of
our innumerable traps. By good or
bad luck several of my natives hap
pened to be in that path when Jupiter
came tearing along. They broke in
different directions, but two, whose
abiect fear caused them to forget the
lay of the land, ran right ahead to-
wards the trap. They reached it atex-
actly the same moment that Jupiter
did, and all three went down together.
When we arrived and looked into the
pit Jupiter had already dismembered
the unfortunate men and was still
tearing away fercely at their frag-
ments.
Now, here is the oldest part of the
story. We Gagged Jupiter after an aw-
full lot of trouble and bore him away
in wi, 70 10 wi 10
dri-e him from tSe bamboo cage to a
solid iron one for shipment to Amer
lea, he fought with all the courage
and despair that might be expected
from human hero. He had the intel
ligence almost of human being, and
/ am certain that he realized that he
was to be taken away forever from
the land of the jungle. 1t was in vain
that we prodded him with red-hot rods
of iron. Into the iron cage he would
not go. Suddenly, as if acting by in
spiration, Jupiter, with head erect,
rushed right up against Tom Walton's
red-hot rod and then sank with a sort
of sob to the floor. When we pulled
him out into the iron cage five min
utes later, Jupiter was dead. The |
heated iron went through his eye and
pierced his brain. AS l live, believe |
it was as clear case of suicide as |
ever a human being committed.
For the first time since / was boy I |
sat down and cried. All of the compa- !
NJ, too, felt as bad as l did. As for |
he felt pretty blue, too.
He wanted that tiger in the worst way. |
]. B. GAYLARD.