Year: 1879

Some years ago 1 was riding with a
friend through the streets Of Lucknow.
when, in the middle of the road we came
upon a bloody mass, apparently the re-
mains of . woman, but bruised and lacer-
ated, and crushed almost out of SEM
blance to humanity.


Stopping the buggy, we looked around
for some explanation, and then perceived
that the streets were utterly deserted Of
man, woman, child and beast, although a
few scared and cautious faces were to be
seen peeping from the doors and win
dows, or over the parapets Of the houses.


'There must have been an attempt at
a riot, and the soldiers have made an ex-
ample Or two for the benefit of the re-
mainder," said my friend, as we drove
hurriedly on.


A few rods further we came upon the
corpse or young man similarly disfe-
ured and also lying in the middle of the
road.


"This is really awful. They must have
made the elephants kill him." muttered
my friend again, stopping the horse and
gazing at the frightful spectacle.


at this moment man appeared upon
the top of an adjoining house, and looked
anxiously down the street. To him nv
friend shouted, and he cried


''Pardon, sahibs but the boy was nv
boy; and the house is desolate. By the
teeth OF Kali, but he has turned this way
again. Take care of yourselves, sahlbs.
he is coming. The man-eater is upon
you!"


"The admes- kpnaacazlaA! the man.
eater 1 have seen him. He is horse
with the temper of tiger and the cour-
age OF man. He belongs to the king.
who sometimes sends slave who dis
| pleases him into the stable They drao
| the body out with hooks


AS he spoke my friend was hastily
turning his horse, while the terrified syee.
who had hitherto run beside the buggy,
scampered Of to the side of the road and
disappeared. I know not where.


At the foot of the hill we had Just as
cended both my friend and I had noticed
sort of park, or pleasure ground, sur
rounded with a high iron fence, its gates
standing Hospitality open. Toward these
gates we now drove at the top speed of
our horses, while behind US, on the road.
thundered the iron hoofs of our pursuer.
Once the sound ceased, and standing up,
I looked over the top of the buggy to see
if he had left us. But he had only en-
countered child, too young to know
Its danger or to escape it, and when
caught sight of him, the savage beast was
shaking the poor little object in its mouth,
precisely as a dog does a rat Another
moment and he had dropped it, and was
again in pursuit Of us. That moments
pause, however, had lost him his prey,
for Just as he was about to overtake us
we turned into the enclosure, my friend
leaped from the buggy, slammed the
gates, and shot the bolt securing them.


AS he did so the man-eater arrived and
hurled himself against the gates with a
shock that must have shattered them had
they been of wood.


Then he stood for an instant glaring
savagely at us through the iron railing.
with distended nostrils and glaring eye
balls, his head covered with blood, his
jaws streamlngwith recent slaughter, great
clots Of coagulated gore clinging to his
cheeks as terrible sight as can we'll
be conceived.


At the sound Of his fcrocious whinny-
ing and snorting, the horse we had been
driving trembled and covered as if at
the roar of a lion.


For a few minutes the man-eater per-