Show PEACOCKS AND TIGERS lacna Is that they A ar D otsa to each other peacocks and timers tigers are believed usually to live together there is also alao a common jungle legend that leopards and tigers can fascinate peacocks the story may originate IR in the tact fact that both leopards and peacocks have hare spots and that there is some mysterious relationship lation ship between them col ty tier had an experience which showed that the natives believe in the story when stalking a peacock he was rather surprised to see how near it allowed him to approach the bird paid no attention to him but was gazing intently as if fascinated at a little patch of jungle just in front looking in the same direction he be saw a leopard stealing on its belly toward the bird which continued to remain still in the same position he was greatly surprised for he had never even heard of leopards la in that neighborhood but his astonishment was greater when on his big raising his gun one barrel of which was loaded with ball and covering the animal the leopard threw up his paws pawa and shrieked in a voice hoarse with terror sahib mut chu loa lea no sir no dont fire he said that for a moment he thought he must be going mad and all the indian tales of enchanted princes and fairies were wolves and the like flasted through his recollection the next moment he saw a man very cleverly disguised in a leopard skin with a well stuffed head and a bow and arrow in one paw standing before him the man so dressed was a professional fowler who said that in that disguise he could always approach near enough to shoot the birds with a bow and arrow and sometimes to catch them in his hand london spectator |