The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-21
4 monster mOunted?"

monster mounted?" .....s
Colonel Bob Downing laughed at
my plainly-expressed horror of the
terrible beast he had set up in his
smoking room-a creature more re-
the taxidermist's faithful reproduc-
ton Of a most suggestively ferocious
and cruel expression on the face of
the stuffed animal.
II had him set up there, Taylor, be-
cause of the associations" said
Colonel Downing, finally. "But for
the Great Jhoot Demon should have
still been knocking about the world a
confirmed old bachelor, instead of be-
ing comfortably settled here in Lon
don with the incest little wife that
ever man had"
''You told me there was an interest
ing story connected with your mar
riage," observed.
cit is interesting and highly dra-
matte" he went on. Light your
cigar and take that easy-chair, so that
you can keep the monster in view.
It'll be realistic aid to your magma
ton as my history of how won Mrs.
Downing develops itself.
Iadopted his suggestion, and never
In my life did listen to story with
such interest.
Every word thrilled me, and could
well imagine myself an actor in the
whole drama, and fancy that the life
less beast within touch of my hand
was alive and again the murderous
demon of an Indian Jungle.
Just before the colonel began, 1
noticed that a small monkey, which
had before escaped my attention, was
perched among the limbs of a dwarf
tree in front of the demon, that the
taxidermist bad used to give his sub
ject more life-like pose.
Irealized that the monkey was part
of the picture, for it's grinning face
was turned toward the demon, and
clinging to the limb with one paw, it
had the other extended, as though
pointing to something ahead.
"What has the monkey to do with it,
colonel?" asked, my curiosity
aroused.
1.-THE Lungoor? You shall hear. He
plays very important part in the
story"
With this assurance was forced to
be content, land settling himself in his
chair, the colonel began.
AS an enthusiastic scientist and
mighty hunter, he had travelled over
every part of the globe, his wander
ings h9ving been chiefly in the widest
and n,ust inaccessible portions of our
planet
Three years ago, while in search of
peculiar plant which grows only in
the deepest of East Indian jungles,
and which he was employed to hunt
up and secure specimens of, for a cele
brated inventor, who wished to ex-
pertinent on the use of the pith of the
plant in some electrical continuance,
the colonel found himself at Ramgarh
a Bengalene village at the foot Of the
,Behar mountains. H~....l
Here he was the guest of an ex-
army officer, Edward Meaney, whose
beautiful daughter, Katharine, made
a deep impression on the coloneIs
susceptible heart.
To use his own description, ssshe
was a woman among women, courage
GUS, gentle, kind, sensible and accom-
plished."
The major was the owner of an ex-
tensive plantation, situated about six
teen miles from Ramgarh, where he
had very comfortably appoin ted
bungalow, in which he lived portion
of the time, his only companion being
his beautiful daughter. ......... ..
Major Meaney had smattering of
botanical knowledge and when his
guest described the plant of which he
was in search, the major said:
II think that I have met with it
while hunting for the Jhoot Demon,
In a dense jungle that lies to the
southwest of my place."
''Hunting the what?" demanded the
colonel, whose sporting instincts were
aroused at the mention of creature
of which he had never before heard.
'The Jhoot Demon"
"And what in the name of all that
is horrible is Jhoot Demon?'
'.It's the name the natives have
given to an enormous man-eating
tiger, which is the terror of that
whole country"
ooh! the demon is only a tiger!
And you sayyou have hunted for him?
Repeatedly"
Sever get a shot?''
s'Never"
'T'll try my luck" said the colonel,
earelessly. cpl combine business
with pleasure. When I'm hunting for
this plant, I'll look up his demonship.'
''Be careful that the demon does
not look you up instead" continued
Major Meaney.
Nonsense! I'm not an ordinary
shikari (tiger hunter), but man wht
has slain over hundred of thu
beasts" - IN
That's exactly. what poor Dicl
Culverton said, and Dick shot owe
fifty tigers in twelve months once, OF
a wager @,s
'And did the tiger get .hlm?p
Yes. In the past ten years Thu