The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-29
WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY 20, 1895
A TIGER locsE m A DAIRY.

Il ne SuTpItAt VI u AtlrstJ u IhG
Big Cat "woughed" In His Face.
There was considerable excite
ment at Mysore recently. One of
the maharajah's tigers got loose and
was not recaptured for over 4S
hours. Allowing tigers and other
wild animals to escape out of con-
finement seems O common event in
Mysore. During the time of the lata
maharejah n got out of his cage
In the menagerie, 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 oc-
casions has any n been injured.
The tiger in the present instance
Is one which is kept by his highness'
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 a very large yard, with
open sheds all round. in which the
cattle are tied. the tigers cage be-
ing close to one end and a fountain
near the other. The tiger got out
about z p. m. and calmly strolled
around, the place being full of cat
tie and people at the time; but, for
tunately, he had no desire whatever
to taste stall fed beef or Bindoo
either, although no passed. within a
few feet of tho COWS and tho mon,
and after examining them all quiet
ly lay down by the fountain.
by . o'clock u couple of elephants
brought down the nets and a Gordon
was run around the place, prevent
ing the tiger escaping or getting ut
tho cattle, when two rather amusing
incidents occurred. A cow managed
to get into the yard, and after skip
ping about for some time rushed in
to a part of the net closest to the
tiger, and for some time struggled
most f%rantically to get loose. Every
one fully expected the cow would
have been killed. Finally, however,
u number of men went out and held
the wretched animal down and re-
moved tho not. Hardly was this
over when q splendid stud bull got
over q part of the net which had
fallen down, and after careening
about the yard just as the COW had
done rushed right up to the foun-
tain and dipped his nose in tho wa
ter. Evidently he had no idea the
tiger was there or he would never
have gone up in the style he did.
However, after drinking, he looked
up, when the tiger, who could not
havo been more than u few feet
away, "wonghed" in his face, and
the way that bull went away after
that did ones heart good to see.
These were two grand opportunities
for witnessing .'hew the tiger seizes
his prey" particularly as there were
SuNufui SpOTtSAJEu ubuut, Dub utilOT-
tunately it was not to be.
After worrying the poor brute for
two days and two nights, during
which timo he got into tho net once,
he quietly walked into bis cage and
was shut up. The cool and indiffer-
ent way in which Bassapali Yrs fos-
silized hunters. with their fearfully
and wonderfully made bundooks,
walked up and down past the tiger
WINS most amusing. What they
would have done in tho event Of the
tiger making for one of them it il
hard to tell. The claws have grown
into the pads of the tiger, and tho
wretchcd animal seems to be suffer-
ing great pain. Had it not boon for
this there would doubtless have been
q very different tale to tell.-Asian.