The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10

Just how she dropped her rifle on nine
foot tiger and killed it the first shot.
While telling the story she frequently re-
ferred to her father for information and
approval, as he himself has record of
thirty tigers to his credit.
81 was born in Lahore nearly twenty
one years ago, and went to England to
school when l was quite young. AT II, I
returned to my birthplace and having
always had desire to go deep into the
jungles with father, who had been In
spector-General of the forests of India as
long as | can remember, he finally con-
cluded to take me on a trip with him. /
had small bore rife with which learned
to shoot accurately, but it was too small
for game, and l got 400 Riley Express
which [ found to be very effective pro-
vided l placed my bullet in vital spot.
When l failed to do this the animal
generally got away with severe but not
fatal wound. To be sure it did great
deal of deadly work, but when | most
wanted it to kill it failed me. had taken
two panthers and stag with it, but they
all had to be hit in the heart. used it
the first year | went out, but the second
trip had made ND my mind to use some
thing more substantial, and il possible en-
large my record. You recollect, father"
said the young lady, turning to that in
dividual, chow provoked was when that
leopard got away with nothing but a bad
flesh wound. Well, anyhow, l was set on
500 express that carried five and half
drachms of powder, and would send
bullet through lion.
81 had learned most of the minor details
of jungle hunting, and as we had the best
trained elephants to hunt with | felt that |
enjoyed all the advantages of that kind of
sport. / never went without father. and
as he is very familiar with the amusement
/ had a good teacher. Once when we were
hunting tigers one of them made directly
for US. Father was behind me little way.
and before could place a bullet he fired
over my head and killed the animal. That
was about the only time have ever been
in any real danger. because, had missed
it, there would have been some trouble"
Miss Ribbentrop's eyes sparkled as she
recalled the incident and she looked at her
father as though inviting comment on that
point.
Eyes" said he; "it's bad idea to miss
when they are hunting instead of being
hunted"
"Oh, yes" resumed the young lady. 81
promised to tell you of my first tiger. AS
/ said before | wanted heavy bore, SO
got father to let me take his gun. He was
a little reluctant at first, owing to the re-
coil of the weapon, but was strong and
never killed nor even got a shot at tiger
up to that time, and we took our elephants
and went up to the northwest province on
the Terai, where the tiger hunting was
said to be very good. We too. along sew
eral water buffalo fof the purpose of at
tracing the tiger to the spot where we de-
sired him. These buffalo are very cheap
and can be bought from the natives, pay
ment being made only for those that are
killed. Well, we staked out our trap, and
both father and myself got up in tree on
a little stand made for US by the natives
and waited for the quarry to appear We
had been sitting there perhaps all hour
when the sound of chattering monkeys
reached our ears. We knew what that
meant.
whenever a tiger comes sneaking
through the grass the monkeys set eyes on
him and strike up terrific rumpus. You
can hear it for mile. It was evident