Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-08
HOG FONTS TIGER.
It Growled at MT Tybee and Jumped
 Over His Head.

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 Hog Point is stirred up by tiger
 hunt, says the Brooklyn Times. The
 Point is strange little settlement
 just east of Sheepshead Bay. It GOV.
 CTS some thirty acres of land densely
 wooded, and is peopled by score or more families, who lead lives as sim pie and slow as did the old Dutch set ! tiers of hundred years ago. They seldom come into the city proper, and few except the men folk ever venture even into Sheepshead Bay. Visitors are far between; an old settler says that not more than fifty strangers are seen in Hog Point in the course of the year And when an outsider ventures into the settlement the in- habitants assemble in front of their houses and stare at him until he leaves.
 The Tiger hunt has been in prog ress for three days. Old Bill Tybee, who has spent sixty years at the Point as man and boy, is said to be Irresponsible for the excitement; there Is no scare down there, for Hog Pointers are strangers to fear. On Tuesday night Bill went to Sheeps- head Bay to buy meal, "taterso and bacon. which are standard foods in the Point. The old man is neither a prohibitionist nor a disciple of King Bachus; occasionally he drinks tall glass of malt juice and on cold days, when the wind is bowling around the Point, he can stand a glass or two of hot Scotch; in the absence of hot hot water he can take his liquor raw.
 On the night of his visit to the Bay, he limited his 'input" to two highballs of beer. And he was as sober and steady as the hackneyed judge, the standard of sobriety. On the way home he trudged along the lane that leads to the Point. He had his load on his back and his pipe in mouth. It was close on to midnight when Billy passed the spot where Sheepshead Bay ends and the Point begins. There was nary light Tor star to guide him.
 Now Bill declares that he hadn't gone very far beyond the place men, tioned when he heard low, angry growl. He paid no attention to this, as he supposed that the growl came from some belated dog. Bill puffed away at his briar wood and walked on, but he had covered only dozen more steps when he heard the growl again. Pulling out his matchbox he struck a hurricane match, which lighted the ground around him for dozen feet.
 Well, swan to man." he said next day, If l didn't sot my eyes onto good sized tiger. I was jest about to ask what he was doin' around there at this hour of the night, when he gives a jump clear over my head. His hoofs touched the brim of my hat"
 The old man keeps a rife; he has, tened to the house and returned to the spot where he made the discovery. He had the rife in one hand and lantern in the other. He went over the ground keeping up the search for two hours. Occasionally. he says. he heard the growls, sometimes they seemed to come from distance and then the critter seemed to be less than a rod away. Bill just itched for s&c chance to hand it a bullet or two.
 He returned to his house and slept soundly until late next day. After breakfast he went about the settle ment and made known his experience of the night. All the Hanks, Toms, Eds and Jakes in the Hog Point brought out their guns and syste- matic hunt for the tiger was started with Bill in the fore. Every now and then Bill declared that he heard the beast growl. Several times at his suggestion his associates blazed into the brushwood in the. hope of turn ing up the beast. The hunt was con- tinued up to dark last night. Bill says that if there's tiger on Hog Point he will have his skin for rug