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Show HUNTING Till!)" TIGER. rltniLLINO YARNS FttOM TUB UAST INDIB9. Jlbera Ofilne rtilranriltnary Paras Into fur t'mler Certain Oon.tlllni,. It's tale In Wnl. 1(11.1 Inlo the Arms or a llaglar . h&j2J fellows ware a bit sWWrASl 1"'n guest-night yfyfikwimiS l(ll"", Kor' TlB" C? IJSWtm atflnl ''rnry Pusiller. It yPragalUl """ """ t0 Mrlr SSlKM? rH '" brf up Bo iwn.li i iAr n adjournment to Amu. e cot- the veranda with a t treah relay of ahlakie and aodaa. waa voted, and the .'onveraalion turned on tiger and sport, a It often doe In tbe Kaot. When the writer Joined the listener. Harvey, of the (lunntr. wa holding forth, a foi'owa: "My queereat adtcnture with n tiger htppened year ago when 1 was quite grltnn, the yanngmt of a party under the direction of Major II , a noted shikaree (guide), whom we obeyed Implicitly, Im-plicitly, and wkum w expectid to show it no end of tiger. I bad been out with him time after time without seeing one. At last, however, the day romc. I waa ported on n ihady tree. Tho tranche near me served as a gun-rack, gun-rack, and as. putting rifle to shoulder, I lighted right nnd left, through Interlacing In-terlacing boughs and lenie. every avenue ave-nue ot approach. I felt myself moat favorably situated. The beat began, nnd at lat I ay my first tiger. Instead In-stead of passing within any ot my range I had marked nut tor him, ha quietly trotted under my tree and lay down at It foot. Swinging rounJ hastily Into an nttttude not previously rehearsed, In tho cxrltment of the moment I overbalanced, nnd. my rifle going off, (descended In a heap on the top of tho tiger I.tuklly for me, the report of the ahnoilng-lron, and the vision of n dark body In the air fright- dusci:ndi:d in a hkap on tiiu top op tub tioi:ii. cned him to much, bo waa off at a gallop at tho moment I crashed down upon him. A bruited shoulder and damaged rifle were the only reminiscence reminis-cence of that ndvenlure. Of course, I got horribly chaffed about It " "I wa onco pretty cloae to n tiger under different clrcumslanrc." tald another man, "It waa In this way. I got a shot at him from a tree, and felt iuro I hit him, as he bounded Into a thicket from which 1 did not see blm emerge. I pointed out the spot to my men, but after explorjng, throwing tones, and loosing off gum, tbcy told mo I wa mistaken, the tiger had got oft and wa mils away. After eome time I wa obliged to accept this conclusion, con-clusion, and. getting out of my tree, prepared lo depart. An Impulse to look for myself led me to Ihe bush Into which I had seen the beast iprlng. A I rounded It, a Hidden roar made my heart itand still. There wa the tiger on hli-hlnd leg, with hi fore law In tba air, aa one tee a Hon In a heraldic coat ot arms, only a few feel from me. I thought my last hour bad com I had nothing In my band but a stick, having glvn up my rllle to my shikaree shik-aree to carry Stepping hack Instinctively, Instinc-tively, I sued upon blm terror-struck, expecting he would be on me in n lec-ond. lec-ond. It teemed an age before my han 1 reached a rifle and pulled the trigger Wo found nfttrward that my first bullet had paralysed bis spine, which atone prevented hi springing on ms Had bo bettt able to drag hla hind leg two or three yard, t should surely sure-ly have bean don for." "Por ntrve combined with prudence. I know a story which tome of you may think worth hearing," ald a voice from a long' arra-ehalr. "Don't suppose any of you ver heard of M , one ot the htst shots I ever tame across. Used to ifcoot nit from ci tm .taoMer. New Mrttl lo mis- I had beltar give It row In hl .,n wort t fr t can remember "I bat going after tlgar with t. mtrrrad mtn ibis I bow bt began aad 111 tall you why There waa a fallow called Crantey wa alway both-erlag both-erlag me to tbow bin Mftr "I bare beta twite year In India." bt W. "tad nw t tyt oa oat." took him with mt. The beat wa to skirt at tbt finish a natural parapet of rock nnd boulder about M yard long, running nortn and tooth. To give Crtnley Rrtt bol I potted him near tbt northern end of tbe partpel draw to a narrow illr In It through which he could Br at anything with perfect safely I told him to wall till tb tiger wtt broadside on, tnd then to Are. If bis kbot tailed, tbt beast would come down to me at tbe tooth-em tooth-em end of Ihe parapet. Wall, on came ' the beater and when I Judged from j tbelr tttotiti that they wert well past Cranlty'a pott, and no ahot rang out. I naturally concluded there wa no i tiger. , "'After I bad walled a little longer, thli conclusion wa in certain that I went round my end ot tbe parapet to the other aide to meet the beaten nnd make Inquiries Jit a I turned the corner, what should I tee. about 10 yard lo my front, but a tiger? I pulled up with a Jerk, my heart In my mouth, and we stood looking at each other while he slowly waved hi tall. I covered him with tho rifle, and felt my life depended nn hi dropping tn i slnglo ihot My aim wa too unsteady to let me draw tba trlgr-cr, so I lowered low-ered the weapon and stared spell- bound at the enemy Again I raised It only to tower the rifle a before. My hand ehook, I dared not fire A third time I drew a bead on that magnificent bead between the terrible eye: but It was no tun I had not tho pluck to shoot Then to ray astonishment and I Immense relief tbe big brute, blinking Inilly, turned round and moved slowly ton anl the beater who by this tlmn were within 150 yards of him in an Instant I waa bark round the corner of my parapet nnd on the right ildn a tho tenter turning the tiger sent him on again, past my cntramc, to meet tba fate he ought to have expert- 9 enccd at Ihe band of Cranlcy Talk fl of funk 1 havo never been In auch a funk before or since n I was when, fl glued lo the ground, I faced that tiger M and dared not fire.' fl " 'Punk you call It It seems to mo M to have been most wonderful preaenco 9 ot mind,' waa my reply, 'the natural Impulse wa to lire and be killed. Hut B how about Cranlcy' fl " 'HI explanation wa weak but hon- flj et When Ihe tiger ased within a 9 few feet of hi poat he wa so tm- fl pretsed by thought of hi nlfe and M children, that be laid down hi rifle B TUB MBBTINCI IN TUB PAItAPBT. and hid hi face In hi hands; thereby leading me to believe there wa no tiger, and to leave my pot n already M related, I never heard of hla going flj tiger-shooting again. I can answer for It be did not go with ma.' " flj |