Year: 1866

managed to procure another pair of oxen,
and patiently recommended the tillage of
his little clearing. But this unwelcome
neighbor egain robbed him of bullock
and once more put an epd to his opera
tions. This was too much to pear, and
with singular hardihoOd the old man de
termined to rid himself of his enemy or
die of him. The bullock lay dead within
a few PAGES of a patch of grass which
interviewed between the clearing and the
forest and the man, thoroughly conver-
SAINT with the habits of the tiger, knew
we'll that in this grass the beast would
lie until the cool of the evening sum
moned him to sup upon the carcass. He
proceeded without further ado into the
house, armed his household, tie three
women aforesaid, with bamboo each,
placed them in line along the edge of the
grass, posted himself by circuitous route
on the opposite side of the cover where
it skirted the jungle, and, having given
6 preconcerted sigma! to his auxiliaries
waited, bow in hand and arrow on string,
for his dangerous enemy. The three wo-
men, nothing daunted, began beating
the ground in a business like manner
They shrieked and yelled, and advanced
steadily into the cover; il was not exten-
sive; before long the tiger came sneak
ing ot,s towards the man, who, well cons
cealed behind tree, let him pass so as to
obtain broadside view, and then let fly
an arrow into the centre of his neck
Fortune favored the bold, and the brute
fell dead.


So little did TIE veteran think Of this
exploit, that [ should probably have heard
nothing about it, had he not come to my
office attended by his family and the man.
kee, or head of his circle, with the tigers
skin, claim the reward ten rupees head)
given by the governwent for the destruc-
tion of this animal; reward which,
shabby as it is, was not to despised by
the poor settler lie was a short wiry
man, some fifty or sixty years of age, with
a dogged, determined look, and spoke of
beating the tiger and making his old wife
aud sonin-law beat him u2, in such a
matter OF fact way that we were all in
shouts of laughter, though filed with
admiration for toe stout old boy and his
hard favored amazons.


There was great luck in such an easy
conquest, but it is not, even within my
own knowledge, a solitary instance of so
large an animal being killed at once by
so apparently inadequate a weapon.


In the cold weather Of 1888, near the
same village of Koorse, where the herd
boy had been killed, | was one day shown
the body of a COW, which tiger had
just struck down. 1t lay-close to some
rather thin jungle, near ridge Of. low
rocks few larger trees, such as man.
goes, we're interspersed in the brushwood
and the ground was covered with dead
dricd.up leaves; 50 crisp that it saemed
impossible for an insect even to pass over
them without being heard 1t was then
about noon, and determined to sit up
for the tiger, who, we knew, would come
again at nightfall, or before next morn
ing, to devour the carcass. A charpie,
or small native bed was speedily
procured from the village, and lashed
across the fork of a mango tree, within
few PAGES of which lay the COW. Before
supss, | and my companion (our doctor)
were escorted to the spot by body of
armed HOLES. disembarrassed myself
of huge sola, or pith hat, which 1 plac-
ed or ths ground near the tree, and in it
| deposited pair of unweldy dragoon's
pistols, Git was before the days of ere
peaters,0 } which | thought would be USE
lcss ia our elevated position. I also took
off and left at the foot of the tree q pair
Of thick shooting shoes, and then, with
the help of my village friends, gained
the charpaic, and sat myself down by
the worthy doctor. Betweeu US were
four double barrels and ammunition
When we were fairly in our post, our es
cort silently withdrew to a hovel on the
skirts of the village, just within hail.


The moon, near its full, was rising, and
the night calm. A deep shadow rested
under the trees, save where, through gaps
in the foliage, the silver rays stole in. A
solemn silence reigned around, scarce
broken by the whispering rustic of the
leaves as at intervals the night air sighed
6tfully. Those who have set motinn!ess
and patient far into the night, with such
an object in view, can understand the
oppressive feeling that steals over one in
the stony Stiffness with ear and eye stretch
ed to catch every sound or det6ct the
sliphtast movemant Immnvahla oe etatues