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fortunate thing that before the brute could inflict farther damage 

 Mr. Osmaston's first shot did for her. The bullet entered in the region 

 of the loins a few iuches below the spine. But as the shot was fired 

 from below, the bullet went up against the spine, which it practically 

 broke, and then worked along under it raking it, and blowing up 

 everything in its way until it reached the lungs, where it stopped. 

 This first shot thus completely disabled the animal and rendered her 

 perfectly harmless. The second bullet hit her in the shoulder. A 

 minute after the second shot was fired, Mr. Osmaston's chaprassi, 

 who was at the machan, hearing his master's cries for help, rushed 

 down the ravine, and found the tigress stone-dead and Mr. Hansard 

 lying insensible in the water at the bottom of the ravine. After the 

 tigress had let go her hold and rolled down the slope, Mr. Hansard, 

 thiuking she would come back for him, had crawled down into the 

 ravine, only to find himself within 10 yards of his enemy, who was 

 of course already dead. It was lucky for him that the shot against 

 her spine had made the tigress at ones relax her hold of him, otherwise 

 he would have rolled down with her and been certainly killed in 

 the fall. 



Measured soon after death the length of the tigress was found to 

 be 8 feet 8 inches. Her canines, as said before, had been worn down 

 all but one, to mere stumps. Some of them were cracked and chipping 

 off, and two were quite decayed with a hole running through the 

 centre. The buffalo killed by her had not a single tooth-mark on it, 

 and hardly any portion of it had been eaten ; its neck had been broken. 

 The tigress was in miserable condition, hardly any fat being found 

 even round her kidneys. Although she killed a good deal, her 

 broken teeth must have prevented her from eating anything like a 

 full meal. 



Mr. Hansard was attended to immediately by the Native Doctor 

 attached to the School, and oa the third day was carried into 

 Chakrata, where, under Dr. Butterworth's skilful treatment, he 

 made such rapid progress towards recovery at the Military 

 Hospital, that before the end of June he could be removed to 

 Mussoorie, a distance of 40 miles. At Mussoorie, however, the 

 results of blood-poisoning manifested themselves in feverish 

 symptoms of a very severe type, and a series of abscesses formed 

 at the end of the wound behind the ear, which, pressing up against 

 the brain, rendered him delirious for weeks. He has now, however, 

 got through the worst, and it is to be hoped that plenty of rest and 



