The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-26
THE LADY AND THE TIGER.
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 looked in despair at the state of the howdah. It ordinarily takes four men to put a howdah or an elephant and to girth it up properly. How could we two do 1t by ourselves? But it had to be done. and at last by dint of stupen- dous exertions the feat was accomplish ed. My gun and binoculars and bag of cartridges, etc, had all gone overheard during our exciting flight; but l had managed through it all to save my rife and most fortunately I had a few rife cartridges in the pocket of my shooting coat. So all being in readiness with an anxiety indescribable, and fearing the worst. Imagine, then. my relief and thankfulness when, as we neared the spot where the catastrophe had occur red, I espied Mrs. Frompton making her way toward us as quickly as she could apparently quite unhurt. It was not long before I had her once more safe in the hoWdah. I could hardly be- lieve that she was no teven scratched or bruised. The long grass had brok- en her fall, she said; and as for the tiger-''Do you know, he fell quite close to me, and I wasn't frightened? But I lay quite still; I hardly dared to breathe; and he is wounded you know very badly; I saw lot of blood on him, on his chest, and dropping from his mouth" Chit through the lungs, thought D; 'and he was pretty sick, too, with his ride and his fall; so he just started about in dazed kind of way, and then, thank goodness, went slowly off in another direction away from me; and when I had given him time to get well away I got up and ran didn't run just? And here l am, and there's the tiger; know exactly where and now let use go and get him.
 We'll, I did not say she was a plucky woman? She insisted that we could not go home now without that tiger, and that Piyari and Ahmed Khan must be given a chance to re- trieve their tarnished regulations. By this time the pad-elephants had all joined us, so hardening my heart, we reformed line and once more advanced into action. Needless to say we found out friend lat home' and though he was desperately wounded he came at us at once as fiercely as before. But Ahmed Khan kept cool this time, and Piyari stood firm, so I stopped the charge with my first barrel easily, anc laid the great striped cat low with my second.
 Then we felt joyful indeed, and re- freshed ourselves with cooling drinks and sandwiches, while, with much
 shouting and gestieulation, our late foe, beautiful still in death, was hoist ed on to one of the pad-elephants. Ther | feeling we had had excitement enough for one day, we returned to camp anc related our adventures. Frampton die not say much, but he realized, as in.
 deed we all did that a great danger had been happily come through. Pooi old Ali Khan was terribly distressed when he heard how the accident haC happened. I think he would have SC 1 verely chastised his son unless we haC
 interceded for him, and he sat up hal
 the night bathing Piyari's wounds
 talking to her caressing her and feed
 ing her with sugar came and othe
 dainties. And we nous autres, how VI
 talked that evening over the walnut
 and wine! How we dwelt on our mos
 disastrous chances, moving accident
 and hair-breath 'scapes!" How W
 killed that tiger over and over again
 And how we toasted Mrs. Frampton and congratulated her on coming s' splendidiy out of her perilous ridet- j From Blackwood's s Magazine.