Tiger Stories

Lady Dufferin, in her book, "Our Viceregal Life in India," tellsof a tiger which in nine months killed twenty-three men. The whole neighborhood entreated an English sportsman, who happened to be in the vicinity, to kill the terrible man eater. The sportsman spent twenty-four hours in a cage, built so that the sportsman within may shoot at the tiger through the bars, and yet be protected from his attack. A companion joined him after he had been tvvelve hours in the cage, and they both watched twelve hours more, but no tiger appeared. Then the two men went to sleep. When they woke they found the tiger had walked round tlie cage, for his footprints were plainly to be seen througli the bars. This same sportsman hunted one day for a tiger, in a jungle so thick that he could see nothing. But he feit sure that a tiger was close to him all the time. At last he made his men examine the ground, and they found tracks which disclosed that the tiger had been following ihem all