Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-06

| i Is III 10 Wall IOT dukes anu oarlS
In these United States
And when the baker kneads his dough,
! If then you are begun,
| No matter what he may put in,
| You'll always be a bun!
Isabel Frances Bellows in ST. Nicholas
Carried on by Tiger.
In the spring of Is l was one Of
very congenial party On board the Pc
ninsular and Oriental steamship Bombay,
bound for England. Among us were
three or four army officers and as many
civil service officials-cosmopoita ali
of them; men who had seen and done
much, and could tell a good story.
| In fact, story telling was aiWays the
order OF the day. Each of us in turn
took the part OF a Scheherezade Tom
Carmody was the sole exception, yet Maj.
Hardwel assured us that Tom had the
/ best story of all
Carmody was an official in the Indian
civil service He was a quiet man, with
small but wiry frame. His left Shout
der was distorted and the arm itself was
withered and practically useless. The
story that Maj. Hardwell referred to had
to do with these injuries
! 1t required considerable fnesse to in
duce c rmody TO talk about the matter,
Dul Inlay lie SuCCulIDeu 10 the uIdUl-
nous entreaty. While the rest of us
iounged III our chairs under the awning
on the quarter deck, Calmody told rs his
story. We could see by the upright way
in which he sat and the little beads Of
perspration that came out on his fore
head that the memory of it had not faded
appreciably.
Five years ago." he said, Il was i'll a
remote part Of the Rajputana district,
| looking after some affairs Of our civil adj
ministration. Ny station was in wild
region Of woods and jungles, with native
villages tucked here ami there among
them. The bungalow stood in a wide
cleared space, with Il single strip Of jun
gle making into the opening from the
! south and ending about 100 yards from
| the compound
L found soon after my arrival that be-
| sides the heat and mosquitoes, the coun-
try had some other unpleasant features.
From time to time accounts drifted TO
me that some person had been carried
away by man eating tiger that haunted
the neighborhood The native villagers
were the only sufferers from these depre-
datiOns, and no one thought for mo-
ment that the tiger might approach my
bungalow, with the >laborers' cabins
around it, and dogs and people always
moving about. Moreover, l learned that
the officers of the --th, at the military
station fifteen miles away, were organic
ing a grand hunt for the man eater, and
this helped allay any uneasiness J. might
have felt.
lone hot afternoon, shortly after I had
received this cheering intelligence, | was
stroiling listlessly about the compound
with my pet fox terrier, Fanny. Present
ty the, dog, who had been burrowing in a
brush heap, routed out big wood rat.
The rodent dashed for the jungle, with
Fanny after him, and /, welcoming any
Elr,d of 0nt
| 1T happened with the smoothness of a
prearranged plan. AS the rat gained the
spur of jungle something yellow and
black flashed out of the cover and came
in a 1.-THE curve toward me. l tried to
bound to one side but tripped and fell.
LAS / lay for a moment face down
ward I heard the hoarse croak Of jack
DAVIS and Fanny's shrill bark. Then up
on my back and side came the fierce
clutch of wide spreading claws. A fero-
c1ous snarl sounded at my ear, hot fetld
breath pulled in my face, and the terri
bic teeth crunched my shoulder. / was
vaguely conscious Of being fercely flung
about as a rat might be shaken by a ter
rier. The next thing / felt was the
scratching and Tapping of high grass and
bushes in my face as [ revived enough
to realize that a man eater had NE in his
deadly grip, and was bearing me swiftly
through the jungle.
My mind was perfectly clear, but
strangely enough / felt no pain and little
fear, although fully assured that my fate
was sealed. The thought came to me
that perhaps my back was broken by the
wondered whether the tiger would at
tempt to swim a winding, muddy lagoon
that divided the jungle, or would turn
up or down it's bank.
Suddenly the brute stopped, as if list
ening, then changed its course. and the
swift bounds gave place to a crouching,
| crawling movement as 1t crept into the
densed part of the jungle. 1t continually
turned its head to the left. whence there
! frequently came to my ears the sound Of
horns and the throbbing note of tomtoms,
and very family the cries Of natives.
/ The thought at once occurred to me that
! the hunting party was organized and
| the man eater.
! The force of heaters. which was clear
/ ~ large. must have been dispersed be-
tween the tiger and his den, for tie
| beast, instead of running away from
them, dragged ME beneath Il low bush in
4 little open space grown up with high
grass and surrounded by q thick growth
| Of bamboo There for the first time he
put me down and with one free paw on
my chest, remained motionless, listening
| to the sound Of the coming line Of beat
erS.
You have. perhaps, watched the feed
| ing of q tiger in a menagerie. If so. you
have noticed the look of ferocity and ap-
prehension with which he SEXES the piece
Of meat thrown to him and crouches be-
hind it, his ears drawn back and teeth
| and claws showing.
| This was the spectacle that l. the des-
| sitting tumult Of sound indicated the adj
! tined dinner of the brute, beheld as the
vance Of the army of beaters through the
jungle. With half shut ewes | lay mo-
| tioness on my back. feigning death, for
at this period the display of life on my