| Show A MOTHERS LOVE some years ago some I 1 english C n lish officers camping in the vicinity of Mul kapoor went wont out tiger hunting and bagged a splendid tigress whilst returning home with the trophy they found in a see sec secluded eluded spot in the lee of a jagged 9 ed rock what evidently was wat the tile lair of a tiger for there lay bones of both human and brute kind and shreds and rags of clothing cloth cioth ingMore more moro interesting than all however was the discovery of a tiny kitten not more than a fortnight old coiled in a corner winking and blinking and gaping at the intruders the hunters at once decided that this tills must be the cub of the beast they had bad slain and willingly took charge of the little orphan tiger kittens are not captured every day di c so when the hunters returned to t their h r quarters the excitement in their tents was considerable the newly ac quiren kitten was provided with a tiny dog collar and chain attached to the tent pole round which it gamboled gam to i the delight of an audience numbering nearly twenty about two hours after the capture however and just as it was growing browin were wire dark the good people in the tent were checked in the midst of their hilarity by a sound that caused the bravest heart to beat rather irregularly it was the roar or rather the combination of shriek andrear and roar peculiar to the tiger when driven mad maa maat mart with rage in an instant the gamboling tamboling gam boling kitten become every inch a tiger and strained with all its baby strength at the tether while it replied with a loud wail to the terrible voice outside the company were panic stricken there was something so sudden and unearthly in the roar that it seemed as though the great tiger brought in an hour before lad had come to life again certainly the tiger in question was already clayed flayed but the picture conjured up became not the more pleasant for that there was w W however not nearly so much time for speculation to the scared seared company as writing these lines has cost for almost simultaneous with the roar there leaped sheer into the center of the tent a bold tigress and without deigning to notice a single man there she caught her kidnapped baby by the nape of its neck and giving it a jerk ajeck snapped the little chain then turning snapped fort for the e tent door trotted affat off at full fall speed after all it appeared appeared that the little thing did not belong elong to the tiger that was slain but to the brave mother that had tracked and recovered it sanguinary man teras esteras ea she may have been ono one can be scarcely sorry to hear that not a gun was leveled at the great rejoicing crea ture hureas as she bore hoffher young one and that she got clear off fer eer E fir x |
