Show WILD BOAR AGAINST TIGER The Tigers Only Aim Seemed to Be to Jump Out of the Reach of the Hog St Louis Post Dispatch A gentleman gentle-man recently traveling in India describes de-scribes a fight he witnessed while there etween l a wild boar and a savage tiger The fight was pulled off in a pit ten yards in diameter with a sanded floor and ICfoot walls Several trapdoors trap-doors served as entrances through whlrih to introduce the animals A trail of grain through one of these doors served to deco a 2yearold boar into the arena A tiger nearly full grown that for a year had liven an inoffensive existence in a cage was forced down a plane from another door and the two beasts were together The tiger wanted to get away His head hung down like a whipped dogs and his tail drooped The fight was apparently going to be a fizzle when the natives began to throw things at the tiger Then the beast began to growl Suddenly the boar dived at him The tiger leaped Into the air and I the boar rushed underneath and went half a dozen feet beyond I puzzled the boar immediately to have the tiger get away from him in that way and he turned and made for his antagonist again Three times the tiger leaped above the boar but the fourth time the boar threw UP his head and the tiger got a rip with the tusks that drew blood Then the cat turned on the pig grabbed him by the nape of the neck and shook him as a schoolmaster school-master shakes a small boy This done the tiger raped the boar and walked away The tiger had merely intended to punish the little beast The boar got his breath and recovered somewhat from his dizziness and fac ing the tiger again made for him just as if the tiger wasnt several times bigger The tiger eluded the charge easily TJien a trap door was opened and tho = tlcer bolted through it at full spee tgt leaving the boar wild for a I |