The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-16
----------------7----------- 7------=--------. A TIGER STORY

We were travelling along the northern branch of the Gadvery River-some- times upon its banks, and again couple of miles from the water, some times travelling five or six miles day, and again halting for couple of days to fish or shoot-when a most singular accident befell me individually.
 I had left camp at an early hour in the morning for the purpose of fishing. While carried my rifle with me- l had no intention of going out of my way to find game. On the previous afternoon had observed what seemed to be a capital spot in the bend in the river, and it was to this place hastened as l left camp. Some of the native servants were astlr and saw me set out, but I did not want their services. It was a pretty thick jungle between the camp and the bend, but at the bend there was a clear spot of an acre in extent with a heavy forest growth and a ledge of rocks for background.
 AS I took look around before sit ting down on the bank to my sport re- marked that it was good spot for wild beasts, but as there was nothing nov ing went right to work with my fish, ing tackle. Catching frog for bait. I flung in the hook, and it was five rnin- utes before I was meeting with such luck that all thoughts of tigers, snakes, jackals and hyenas were driven out of my mind.
 I had landed half Q dozen good-sized fish, and was just then playing with a larger one, when a slight noise startled me, and I looked round to see such a sight as has seldom come to the eyes of sportsman. A full-grown tiger was within five feet of me, playing with one of the fish. It was the last one pulled out, and in its dying agonies was jump ing about on the grass. Every time It moved the tiger would reach out paw in playful way, and once or twice he struck hard enough to move the fish three or four feet. 1 tell you 1 was q badly Frightened man. and all l could do was to sit there with mouth and l eyes open. The tiger had crept down from the bluffs, and why he hadn't at ! tackled me vast mystery. He went from fish to fish. turning them over his paw, and time and again brushing me 1 with his tail as he moved about My rifle was ten-feet away, leaning against a bush, and I might have been idiot enough to try and reach it but for a warning.
 My personal servant had followed me to see what luck I had He came into the neighborhood while the tiger was playing with the fish, and softly climb ing tree, he uttered the call of a biro to attract my attention and then sang out: Do nothing to provoke the tiger master, He is a hiloweele, and if you dt not cross him he will go away"
 He meant that the spirit of gooe nature that been transformed, and |
 was clearly the common sense way tC follow his advice.
 As the beast gave me no attention, | turned to the fish tugging at the end O my line, and landed him. He was O. good size and full of vitality, and thu tiger waited in a playful way until re moved the hook and threw the fish or the grass. Then he sprang for it as { kitten would for ball of yarn, ana played with it in the same way. It wa! Imaginable, in spite of the circumstance to witness his actions
 He would run around in circles, a; you have seen a dog do, sometimes al
 most leaping over me. and then agail
 softly forward to bounce upon one 0