Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-27
TIGER LOOSE IN A DAIRY.
Surprise of a, Big Bull at Encountering
the Beast Face to Face.

There was considers bic excitement
at Mysore recently. One of the ma
harajah's tigers got loose and was not
recaptured for over forty-eight hours.
/ Allowing tigers and other wild ami
mails to escape out of confinement
seems a common event in Mysore.
During the time of the late maharajah
one got out of his cage in the menag-
gerie, and also during his fathers
reign a tiger loafed all over the fort a
whole day, going in and out of peoples
/ houses, but strange to say on none of
these occasions has anyone been in
jured.
The tiger in the present instance is
one which is kept by his highness's
| dairy to keep away the evil eye
from the cattle. He was netted for
Lord Lansdowne to shoot when his
eXcellency visited Mysore a few years
ago, and is a splendid brute. The
dairy is very large yard, with open
sheds all round, in which the cattle
are tied, the tigers cage being close to
one end and a foundry near the other.
calmly strolled around, the place be-
ing full of cattle and people at the
time; but, fortunately, he had no de-
sire whatever to taste Stalled beef, or
Hindoo either although he passed
within few feet Of the COWS and the
men, and after examining them all
quietly, lay down by the fountain.
By 9 o'clock couple of elephants
brought down the nets and a Gordon
was run around the place preventing
the tiger escaping or getting at the
cattle, when two rather amusing Incl
dents occurred. A COW managed to
get into the yard, and after skipping
about for some time rushed into part
of the net closest to the tiger, and for
some time struggled most frantically
to get loose. Everyone fully expected
the COW would have been killed. Fin
ally, however, a number of men went
out and held the wretched animal
down and removed the net. Hardly
was this over when a splendid stud
bull got over a part of the net which
had fallen down, and after careering
done, rushed right up to the fountain
and dipped his nCse in the water. Evil
IDENTIFY he had no idea the tiger was
was there or he would never have
gone up in the style he did. However
after drinking, he looked up, when TIN
tiger, who could not have been more
than a few feet away, "woughed" id
his face, and the way that bull went
away after that did ones heart good
to see. These were two grand oppor-
tunities for witnessing how the tiger
seizes his prey" particularly as there
were several sportsmen about, but un-
fortunately it was not to be.
After worrying the poor brute for
two days and two nights. during which
time he got into the net once, he
quietly walked into his cage and was
shut up. The cool and Indifferent
way in which Bassapali Yrs fossilized
hunters, with their fearfully and Won
! derfully made bundooks, walked up
and down past the tiger was most
amusing. What they would have done
in the event of the tiger making for
one of them it is hard to tell. The
claws have grown into the pads of the
I tiger and the wretched animal seems
to be suffering great pain. Had it not
been for this there would doubtless
have been a very different tale to tell
] The Asian.