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Show halted within five feet of the bleating and frightened kid the tiger looked him in the eyes from a distance of about forty feet. Both stood still and stared for-a minute. Reed had a rifle but he was a poor shot and dared not take the risk of firing. The tiger was no doubt astonished and puzzled, and perhaps a yell would have frightened him off, but as no yell came he began to work up his temper. For two or. three minutes he switched his tail and growled and then of a sudden rose In the air like a bird. He had divided the forty feet into two leaps, but the second was never made. As he touched touch-ed the earth after his first he fell upon the pan of the trap, and the jaws closed around both forelegs. Tiger Breaks the Chain. The trap was secured by a chain stout enough to draw a sawlog, but caught as he was the beast soon broke the chain and went off into the jungle TRAPPING A TIGER. HOW A YANKEE WITH A YANKEE IDEA SOLVED A PROBLEM And Incidentally Earned Pnrse of SSOO and a Name as a Hero How the Tiger Prepares for an Attack Carried Off the Trap. (Special Letter.) There are no Inns along the highways high-ways of India, as the average reader has probably been told before, but the traveler seeking rest and refreshment turns into one of the free bungalows provided by the government. He finds cooking utensils, dishes and a bunk, and there Is generally a native caretaker. The rule of the road is that no traveler stops longer than over night except In case of sickness or ac- cident. Few of the bungalows have doors or windows, and unless in the height of the rainy season no blankets are hung up at the openings. It was In a bungalow on the highway high-way between the towns of Rampore and Bagrah, In the province of Bengal, that Sir Edward Potter, an English tourist doing India, met a tragic fate. A party of six had arrived at the bungalow bun-galow an hour before dark. When supper had been prepared and eaten, the gentlemen smoked and chatted for a couple of hours and then lay down on the veranda to sleep that is, five of them did, while Sir Edward had a bed made up for him In the large room. The nearest jungle was a mile away, and as the grounds had been beaten over for serpents no one felt any fears as he made ready for sleep. It was a starlight night, with everything quiet, and all the party fell into a sound sleep. They were awakened awak-ened at midnight or a little later by a shriek for help, and as they got to their feet they beheld an enormous tiger trotting off with Sir Edward in his grip. with the trap. It was while he was being followed that the body of Sir Edward was found. It seems hardly credible, but that tiger gave Reed and his native assistants a two days' hunt. He dragged the monster trap through thickets and up hillsides and across ground where a man could hardly make his way, and when finally come up with and killed he had traveled a distance of eighteen miles and had bitten one of his legs off in hopes to get clear of the trap. Not only that, but an hour before he was come up with and finished off, the beast, fettered fet-tered as he was, and covered with his own blood, hobbled into a small village vil-lage and tried to seize a small child in its teeth. It was Reed's first experience with his Yankee idea for thinning out the dangerous beasts of India and making a few dollars at the same time, and he found that it worked very well. Though much abused afterward for his scrub way of downing the royal Bengal, he was made a hero of in this case, and friends of the lamented Sir Edward presented him with a purse of $500. Tiger Prepares for Attack. ' The tiger had stolen out of the nearest near-est cover and taken a thorough survey of the bungalow before seizing the victim. Any one of the five sleepers offered him an easy victim, but he passed them by. He made his way between two of them and entered the room by a window and seized Sir Edward Ed-ward by the shoulder. The shouts of the others did not rattle the beast in the least. With a twist of his head he threw the man over on his back and BOTH STOOD STILL AND STARED, went off at a leisurely pace, and he was neither fired on nor pursued. No one dared shoot for fear of killing the man, and to have pursued the tiger into the jungle would have been foolishness. fool-ishness. As none of the party was a tiger hunter, there was nothing to do but resume their journey and give notice no-tice at the next post of what had occurred. oc-curred. They had scarcely left the bungalow when a man named Reed arrived there. He was an American and what the English call a "cute Yankee." He had gone out to India from New York after tiger skins. Instead In-stead of taking rifles and cartridges he had taken beartraps. Landing in Calcutta with no less than two dozen monster steel traps, he was making his way up to the tiger country to do business. He wasn't blowing his horn very much as he knew that every Englishman Eng-lishman in India would look upon him with contempt, but as there was no law . against trapping tigers he meant to send home a shipload of skins if he could. American Baits His Trap. Reed had no sooner heard of the tragedy of the night before than he baited his trap for his first tiger. He . traced the beast into the jungle for 200 yards and then set one of his traps on a path and baited it by tying a kid to a stake just in the rear of it. This was done early in the morning, but with no hope that the tiger would leave his lair until late In the evening. He did leave it, however, much earlier than that. Strangely enough, he contented con-tented himself with sinking his fangs Into Sir Edward and killing him,, but did not mutilate the body In the slightest. slight-est. The bleating of the kid called him from his lair about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and at the same hour the beartrap man went forth to see if his trap was all right. As he was advancing, ad-vancing, along the .path In one direction direc-tion ,the tiger, was eomlng up from another, an-other, and the result was that as Reed |