The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-06


"Dem'd big place, y'knov. Natives
caste-hunting- all that sort of thing"
7 been reading Kipling." said Mix
Would you say he gave a good idea
of the life?"
Splendid" said Seymour. jumping
eagerly at this loophole. you read
Kipling-that's the way. He knows all
about it"
Good hunting?" suggested Mix. He
was picking my pecan with that vigor
he had just been Boosting.
Quail to elephants" said Seymour.
Elephants? Have you ever"
''NO, no." interrupted the Briton,
hastily. Never got an elephant" (He
did not mention that an elephant had
almost gotten him.
''Tigers?" Mix suggested.
Full OF EN-"
Ever hunted emf"
''Oh, yes; all the chaps DO. y'know."
Get any?"
"A few"
Mix regarded Seymour for a moment.
1t struck me that he was trying to un-
derstand a man who'd done these things
and failed to advertise them in the
street cars.
How do you hunt tigers?" he asked
at last.
4 should recommend a double-bar-
relied four-fifty Express rifle"
I mean how do they do it7" said
Mix From elephants. don't they?"
That is in the big tiger hunts" said
Seymour. Rather dull sport, y'know."
'Dull?" echoed Mix in establishment.
1T doesn't look so darn dull in pic
tUres-tigers climbing right up the side
Of the elephants.'
zone couldn't miss 'em at that range,
could one, now?"
ooh" said Mix, blankly. Then: How
else do they hunt emp"
First Off" said Seymour, your
shikari-native hunter chap, y'know-
he tells you where there is one"
How does he get the tip?'
a goat or a man disappears from the
village" said Seymour 1.-THE shikari
looks for tracks and finds where the
tiger takes water. Then you go out in
the jungle-moOnlight and that sort OF
thing, y'knOw-and get up tree, where
the tiger may pass, and there you roost.
1t makes one quite stiff"
Mix was gazing at my friend, fasci-
mated. Now he nodded eagerly.
Then" Seymour continued, in HIS
matteT-of-fact voice, IF lucks with
you, he comes along, and you get your
shetland there you are, y'know" He
~
for he drew a long breath and lighted
a cigarette.
But if you miss?"
Better not miss" advised Seymour.
IF you do. the beast may give you the
slip, y'know."
But you can't always be sure to"
quite right" admitted Seymour.
The moonlight's observation-disclosures
and that sort Of rot. 1t is difficult to
get a, clean shot at him"
'S'pOse you wound him?'
IF he's bleeding it's simple to track
him." the other elucidated.
DO you mean to tell me-" cried Mix,
emphasizing each word with a jerk Of
the head, that you'd get out of the tree
and go after him-after a wounded
tiger?"
Certainly" replied Seymour, with a
puzzled look zone wouldn't lose him,
/ If one could avoid it, would one, now?'
well, I would asseverated Mix.
I'D lose him as far as I could, TOO!
| I'm not looking for a speedy and dis
NAL finish! I'd rather go to sleep on a
railroad track
"Oh, there's really no danger" Sey-
moUr assured him. You see, one
/ knows what a. tiger will do
What will he do?"
~ II NetlN ADA gDuS- Ctg lilbut ut~
clared.
You say that's not dangerous?" de-
manded Mix with emphasis Amuse-
ment was combined with the puzzled
+ expression Of his face.
IF there is any danger" my friend
returned. its so slight as to amount
[ to practically nothing. You see one
/ can always count on a tiger"
Well said Mix eagerly, "he waits
l for yOu-What neXt2"
There's really nothing more TO it,
/ said Seymour. You come up and he
| crouches and springs-roars, y'know-'
''Yes?'
Then you merely pot him"
As we strOlled up Broadway a few
moments later Seymour turned to me.
"Dem'd remarkable chap. Mix" he
said. why, d'y' know, it would abso-
| lutely terrify me to go before a board
| of directors like thatr
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