The morning times., 1896-01-06
TIGER LOOSE IN A DAIRY.
Surprise of Thirsty Bull when til

Surprise of Thirsty Bull When the
Big Cat "wouxhed" I'm His Face.
There was considerab BILE excitement at
Mysore recently. One of the Maharajah's s
tigers got loose and was not recaptured fer
over forty hours. Allowing tigers and
Other wild animals 10 escape out of confine-
.ment seems a common event In Mysore.
During the time of the late Maharajah one
got out OF his cage in the menagcrie, and
also, during Ills fathers reign 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
injured.
The tiger In the present instance is one
Which is kept by his highDess's dairy to keep
away the "evii eye'' from the cattle. He
was netted for Lord Lansdowne To shoot
when his exceliency visited Mysore few
years ago, and is a splendid brute. The
dairy is d very large yard, with open sheds
all round, In which the cattle are tied, the
tigers cage being close to one end and
fountain near the other. The tiger got out
about p. m. and calmly strolied around,
the place being full of cattle and people at
the time; but, fortunately, he had no de-
sire whatever to taste stall-fed beef, or
Hindoo either, although he passed within
a few feet of the cows and the men, and
after examining them all quietly, lay down
by the fountain.
9. BY 9u'cloek q couple of elepha nts brought
down the nets and a Gordon was run around
The place. preventing the tiger escaping
sor getting at the cattle, when two rather
anu sing incidents occurred. cow
managed to get into the yard. and after
skipping about for some time, rushed into
a part of the net closest to the tiger. and
for some time struggled most frauticaiiy
TO get loose. Every one fully expected
the COW would have been killed. Finally.
however, a number of meu went out and
held the wreiched animal down and re-
moved the net. Hardly was this over
when a splendid stud bull got over a part
of the net which had fallen down, and
after careening around the yard Just as
The COW had done, rushed right up to the
fountain and dipped his nose into the
water. Evidently he had no idea the tiger
was there, or he would not have gone up
u he style he did. However, after drink
4ng, he Hooked up, when the tiger, who
could not have been more than few feet
away, "woughed" in his face, and the
way that bun went away after that did
ones heart good To see. These were two
grand opportunities for witnessing ''how
the tiger seizes his prey" particularly as
there were several sportsmen about, but
unfortunately 1t was not to be.
After worrying the poor brute for two
days and two nights. during which time
he got into the net ouce, he quietly walked
into his cage and was shut up. The cool
and indifferent way in which Bassapali
Urs's fossiliZed hunters, with their fear
fully and wonderfully made bundooks,
walk up and down past the tiger was most
amusing. What they would have done
in the event of the tiger making for one OF
hem, il is hard to tell. The claws have
-yrown int1 The pads OF the tiger. and the
wretched animal seems to be suffering great
pain. Had it not been for this, there
would doubfless have been very differ
ent tale to tell.