The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-18
D1iss uiIIaTd's Pet.

"Well, we're off, Miss Millard.
What shall | bring you-since you
won't have my hearth" he added
in lower tone. With the eyes of
the whole party upon her, she could
oriy laugh and answer:
Bring me a baby tiger, Lieut..
Nugent. They say they're as tame
and pretty as kittens, and l would
/ like so unique a pet"
Unique, growled old Col. Price;
unique And some day your pretty
kitten will make a meal of you, and
YOUR friends will have to put the kit
I ten in the coffin to be sure of inter
ring you. Umph -
First catch your hare, you
know put in a third fannel-shirte1,
top.booted individual, looking to the
loading of his rife. ''It isn't as easy
as picking gooseberries, capturing
tiger cub. You are most likely to be
gooseberry yourself, or with the
berry added later when the mother
gets through paying her delicate at
tentions to your carcass.
''Oh, well if you are afraid, lieu
tenant" pouted Miss Millard, turn
ing her head away from the handsome
eyes fixed upon her. The hot blood
rose to the young mans cheek and
bis look of passionate admiration
changed TO one of pride and bright
ened to Indignation. ''You shall
have the kitten, Miss Millard," he
said, quietly, 'lf there is one to be
found, " and joined the party setting
put for the jungle in search of big
game.
How could you be so foolish, I'M
fgene p said Mrs. Price, lying back
lazily in her hammock, shielded from
The glare of the brazen Indian sky by
giant jujube tree, which also eX-
tended the shelter of it's leaves to I'M
pgene in her wicker chair. Leonard
Nugent is just the boy to risk his
Life to crafty your caprice"
"0h, no, he isn't, cousin Harriet;
te's too matter of fact, and thinks
700 much of himself to endanger even
bis comfort for me or any other wo-
nan," answered the girl carelessly
Stripping long blade of grass be-
tween her white fingers. Il
Now, that is where you are mis-
aken, Imogene. Under Leonard's
luiet, self-contained manner lie cour-
ge and devotion that would put to
hame those pink and white officers
! the Fifteenth and Twenty-second
nat flutter about YOU"
We'll, | am too sleepy to argue it
lutwith you, returned Imogene, clos
ns her blue eyes with provoking
roop of her pretty mouth.
Yes it is a female, sahib, and if
mistake not she has cubs, young
mes. But to 60 in search of them
Hong the nullah whence she came
ould be to run into the very jaws OF
cath, for the male, missing her, will
pillow from the lair.
" It's all nonsense, anyhow, Nu-
ent," said the Colonel, gruffly, "to
sk your life for a woman's whim,
ten to one Imogene will have for
0tten all about the thing before we
ven get home"
No matter; | am going to trace
way the tigress took to the
rlnking place, and secure the cub if
can. viii you come with me? or,
you prefer going on, Mohammed
IN here will be sufficient"
"of course we are going with you
you persist" returned Franklin,
third man, and the Colonel,
fugging his shoulders, left the
polies to carry home the tigress
nich ne had just shot, and plunged
eper into the jungle after Nugent
~ the old tiger hunter, who with
fahklin, were beating down the long
ass before them.
we must be near the place.
MD, whispered Mahommed Din
'er several hours slow march along
banks of the little nullah, now
" put covered with wilderness of
citation that tore at their gar
on's scratched their skin. and
ought many muttered blessings
Om the Colonel. 81 have
una it easy to trail her
'nis point, but here she
usO nave turned.' He bent to
anime the bowed bush before him,
= !, as ne did so a long body like a
sn 81 oi yellow light launched itself
,Vugh the air, only clearing his ma
oacK by a few inches. 1t was
male, furious presumably at the
jvnce WY. OF its mate and at the crying
w. ~ CUBS, and, missing the native,
issa s ''seii upon Nugent, who, sur
Il a'u at the suddenness of the at
ss7 ~ was borne backward and to the
tnn W. with the tawny shape stretched
'Sii length upon him and feeling