The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-05

leaves behind me. I held my breath | and clutched my rife; the sounds came | nearer and near it was only a peacock. From the noise he made he might have been an elephant. Dark ness fell over the jungle, and there was no moon, so I determined to try to sleep. It was useless firing in the dark if the tiger did come! could not see the sights; but might get shot in the early morning
 I dozed off in an uncomfortable sleep, a slight breeze got up, when suddenly I head a noise like a locomotive let ting off steam. It came closer and clos CT and finally stopped some way behind my tree. If that Is our friend he must be very short in the windI Dead silence for five minutes-of course I wanted to sneeze-then two very distinct sniffs and then absolute silence. Five minutes, or it seemed like an hour afterward twig cracked, and I knew the tiger had departed, never to return that night. He had got my wind
 We'll, there was one compensation; could at last move. I was stiff all over from sitting in one position so long. stretched myself and lay back again. The Great Bear was getting low in the sky. dozed off again. The night pass ed, and early the next morning my shikaris returned, and I was glad to descend from the tree and get back to camp and have a bath. The old hela was removed and fresh ones tied up.
 Two days later there was another kill on the other side of the hill so we beat it with 200 villagers. The tomtoms sounded, and a terrible hubbub was made. thought a noisy beat advisable, as if the tiger was in one of the caves he would take some dislodging; but the beat was blank, During the next few days there were two more kills and two more beats, not only on the hill but in the surrounding nullahs; but no sign of the tiger The next night he killed a village COW and never touched it af- ter sucking it's blood He was an epi- cure he ate little but he liked fresh meat. The tiger had now killed five cows; we knew his tracks as well as our own, but none of us had seen him yet. I still persevered; cows were reg ularly tied up, but for four days there was no kill, and his pugs had dlsap- peared.
 The next day I determined to shift my camp, and in the early morning took short stroll, when at my feet I saw the we'll known pugs of the "de- ip els him the "shaitan.' He had passed with in 100 yards of my bed that night and had probably been smiling at me, I called my men and followed up his tracks into the hill behind, where he must, have lain up, but we never saw him. Two days later there was anoth- CT kill near the hill and I determined to sit up for him again, as there was a moon.
 I was in my machan by o'clock. Darkness came on and the moon got | up, but not a sound disturbed the jun gle, except the calling of the nightjars and the occasional noise of a tomtom from some distant village. At about 12 o'clock I was very drowsy, and per haps I had been asleep for a minute or two, when suddenly heard the tapping of water behind me, as If some big | beast was drinking, but not another sound. could just see the dim outline i of the Killed hela on the ground; the moon was getting low. I dozed off again; It was sleepy work, When woke again daylight was fast showing up everything around me- I looked
 down, the hela was untouched.
 I thought my shikaris very late in arriving, when suddenly I saw Kama
 gee running silently toward me, and
 on helping me down he said that al
 about 6:30 they were coming toward my
 tree when they saw large tiger walk ing along about two hundred yards be- hind my machan; they thought he was coming straight toward me. They wait. ed and as they heard no shot they moved on, and then found a dead
 sambhur about four hundred yards
 from where I was sitting, which the
 tiger must have killed. got down and
 found a little pool of water in the roei
 behind me, which the tiger must have
 drunk from that night, and then saw
 the sambhur lying on his back, with s
 small piece eaten out of his hindquar-
 ters; he was a fine, full grown stat
 with a small head Ny luck was truly
 dead out, this was the irony of fate
 The tiger must have been on his wa,
 to the kill when he met the sambhu
 and killed him then and there.
 That evening sat up over the san1b
 hur till clock. I saw nothing excep
 flies, and the atmosphere was awful : was dead beat and awfully sleepy, S I got out of my machan and wen
 back to camp. The tiger never return
 ed to the sambhur, or the other kil
 and 1 had not seen him yet. He agail } disappeared for three days, and I nov ed my camp to place eight miles of
 where there had been a kill by tigres
 and full grown cub. She also was a cunning as they make them. I was sti !, tying up for the demon and he ha now killed ten of my helas, and wa reduced to tying up cows In the las } stage of existence. as heas had ru , out Twice more did he kill and twie } more did we beat the second beat re } sulting in a bear, which insisted on sit ! ting under my tree, but no tiger. sa up once again, tying up a goat to at : tract him with it's bleats.
 t The shikaris were not more than tw
 hundred yards away, and I had hard } ly settled myself in my machan whe a large panther rushed out and seize the goat. had to shoot him; the goa 7 rolled out of his paws, and Is still ally 7 for all know; but it was no good sit ting up any more for that tiger. W .li . ,y, do, r