Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-03-08

with the boy at his beels. When
he was within earshot. his master
called to him, THAT brute of a
tiger has killed another mail
carrier; and now Pm minded to put
bullet through his hlde.'
aidOn, ssheeb. lie no tiger,
he devil" SAID ALI; "saheeb no
shoot hin. he shoot saheeb!"
ave shall see about that" re-
Piled the Lieutenant. "Are you
man enough to come along with
me and chance liz"
"If saheeb 60, Ali 60 with
him and devil-tlger eat bOth," re-
piled the native, calmly.
"Well, then, just get me red
coat such as the mail.carriers wear,
aud we'll be OF at once"
Tue native took the purse which
his master held out TO him aud re
traced his steps toward the bazaar,
thinking his master stark mad.
Bat then in the E .st madmen are
deemed inspired.
When he returned with the red
coat he found the Lieutenant trans
formed into a tair imitation of a
native by the aid of burnt cork.
The Lieutenant dOnned the coat,
loaded his pistols, thrust them into
his belt, and handed the gun to his
servant. The rife he shouIdered
himself. The two then stole out
of the bungalow by the back door
and gained the high road by an un'
frequented path to avoid attract
Ion neutrality-suspicious. a wire
precautiOn when one goes out for
wool at the risk of coming home
shorn.
For some fO1r or FIVE miles their
road lay through open fields sowD
with maize and cotton. Then they
lived into the jungle. Here the
Lieutenant bade Ali fall behind
aud trotted on ahead by himself,
lest the tiger should "smell a rat.'
SO on be jJgged alone, hoping
though not without a qualm or
two-that the beast would mistake
him tor a post.runner aud show
himself. To this end be tied the
bells III a bunch to bis glidIe, and
a pretty jingle they made as he
sped upward. Anon he plunged
into wood of lofty trees, where
the underlying brushwood grew
thick enough 10 harbOr a hundred
hnugry tigers within easy reach OF
him. The thought made hin
blanch a bit; but nevertheless he
pushed on till be reached the very
spot where the man eater had made
his last meal OF human flesh
There could be no dOubt of 1t, for
traces of the poor fellows blood
we're still to be seen on the white
pebbles in the bed of what, during
The rainy season, became a fOamiDg G
torrent. Here Charlie Wallace
halted, with his rife at full cock in
his right hand, aud gazed around
him.
Nsught stirred. All was silent
as the grave-oppressIvely silent
Ah! what noise was that which be
heard behind himi The footsteps
of his servsntl Impossiblel AL
must still be half a mile beh
him. AS this thought flashed
through his mind he faced round
just in time to see pair of CLEAN
lug eyes gIarlng at him from th'
b ushwood. QIick As lightning hC
raised his rife and fred. A wilt
howl answered the report, and
huge tiger rolled down into tht
gully, where it lay for a moment as
if stunned. But it quickly re
covered itself, and crouched tC
spring on its sssailant. Had Wal
lace wavered for half a second ht
must have shared the fate OF
the luckless runner. But he
whipped out his pistol and dis
charged it pointblank in the AMI
malls face. One Of the slugs en
tered its eye and pierced the brain
and the ruthless creature fel
! seemingly liteless at his feet; tbeI
he knew that it wust actually have
. made Its spring when he fred.
With bis second pistol in hi
I hand be sat down OIL the brink o
8 the gully and mopped the moistur
from his dripping brows. Mean
I while he kept his eye fixed upol
= his enemy, half expecting to see
> rise and renew the attack. Blu
o th,re it lay quite motionless, ant
was indeed stone dead.
He had ample time to admire th
> beauty of his sleek coat before Al
4 made his appearance.
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