Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-10
Seeks Revenge for the Death of Its
Wife and Cub.
RESCUED IN TIE NICK OF TIME
The Mother and Her Cub We're Killo,
Easily
hut the Male Tiger Chased His
Tormentors TIL Thcy Took Refuge
in Tiger cage-Broise Through
tho Iron liars.

Leaving the driver and the team. Lu-
clus and | plunged into the Jungle at
! the heels Of the shikaree, whose name
was Pandu. He served as guide and
gun. bearer.
We relieved Pandu OF our heavy bore
rifles and started brls1ly back. For a
time the dense underground made a
single file a necessity. Then we struck
a patch OF marshy ground. 1t was
comparatively open. and Lucius and |
spread out to the right and left OF
Pandu as we tramped saggily forward
through rustling weeds that came
above our shoulders. These suddenly
fell away and we emerged on the brink
Of Il CLASSY, pool Of water. says writer
in the San Francisco Chronicle.
AS we instinctively halted we heard
low. furious growl. CHANGING to the
left. we saw q sight that chilled our
blood with horror. Twenty feet down
the shore OF the pool, in ;i'r shade NJ a
rock and overhanging reeds, crouched
n monstrous tisres. Beslde her was q
playful slx-months-old cub. The beast
had seen us and was making ready to
spring.
For an instant I was petrifed with
fear. / heard Lucius and Pandu
breathing hard behlnl ms.Ths leNt my
nerves were 4tsaIy ru ldsh. | Iulnem-
bered was n"igri: tho diirial On me
devolved tho uuty of defence. Up went
my rifle. and with u hasty aim pulled
the trigger. Perhaps my arm trcmbled
a llttle-anyway, the ball hit the cub
In the breast and stretched It lifeless
beside Its mother. The rage OF the tig-
ress was fearful to see. Her eyes grew
living Goals. and sho roared like n
fury, The next instant she launched
herself forward straight toward me. /
was actually fascinated by the sight.
My limbs seemed to have lost the power
OF motion. As though in a dream, L
heard Luclus cry;
Down! down! Jump to one side"
strucis Down hy II Ilgrcss.
l think moved a few inches. and
that unconscious act saved my life. The
long, tnwny body Of the tigress struck
me sideways and pitched me headfore-
most into the muddy pool.
As / staggered to my feet, covered
with filth and water, 1 heard the roar
OF a rife. Then 1 saw the tigress quiv-
erlng in her death agouies on the
ground. She was quite dead before |
reached the spot. Lucius stood over
her with a smoking rifle in his hand.
His face shone with triumph through
Its pallor,
That was a splendid shot" ex-
1T was a deuced lucky one" he re-
piled. You had close shave OF 1t.
Jovel / though you were never going
to get out Of the way. Where is you
rihe?'
l remembered that It lay at the bot
tom of the pool. "Tll soon get It," I
said. and started back to the water.
My legs were u little shaSy and my
back felt bruised. 1 wnded out knee
deep and bent over to grope for the
weapon. But Just then a low cry from
Pandu brought me stiny erect. | heard
threshing noise In the dry reeds. 1t
was yet at some distance. l hastily
reiolned Lucius and we looked In the
direction OF the sound. A second later
n deep, awful roar echoed through the
Jungle II fairly stood our hair on end.
Pandu's mahogany face turned livld.
THE tiger, sahlbs" he gasped ut
is coming to nvenge It's mnte and It's
cub His teeth chartered with every
word.
There, Pandu,' exclaimed Luclus,
give mo y'pr rife, quick. It has a
longer range
He handed his own gun to the shi-
karce. but before he could take the
other IN exchange the angry roar
rang out again, and we had a glimpse
Of the tiger as Il bounded toward us
over the reeds. 1t was less than thirty