TIGER AND DEER 
comes prowling along, and smelling the man, rears up on its hind legs, trying to claw 
down the bamboo bars. The hunter in the meanwhile takes his spear, and mortally 
wounds the brindled foe, by striking the spear-point between the bars of the edifice. 
A still more ingenious mode of Tiger killing is that which is employed by the natives 
of Oude. 
They gather a number of the broad leaves of the prauss tree, which much resembles 
the sycamore, and haying well besmeared them with a kind of bird lime, they strew them 
in the animal’s way, taking care to lay them with the prepared side uppermost. Let a 
Tiger but put his paw on one of these innocent looking leaves, and his fate is settled. 
Finding the leaf stick to his paw, he shakes it, in order to rid himself of the nuisance, 
and finding that plan unsuccessful, he endeavours to attain his object by rubbing it 
against his face, thereby smearing the ropy birdlime over his nose and eyes, and glung 
the eyelids together. By this time he has probably trodden upon several more of the 
treacherous leaves, and is bewildered with the novel inconvenience ; then he rolls on the 
eround, and rubs his head and face on the earth, in his efforts to get free. By so doing, 
he only adds fresh birdlime to his head, body, and limbs, agelutinates his sleek fur 
together in unsightly tufts, and finishes by hoodwinking himself so thoroughly with 
leaves and birdlime, that he les floundering on the ground, tearing up the earth with 
his claws, uttering howls ef rage and dismay, and exhausted by the impotent struggles 
in which he has been so long engaged. These cries are a signal to the authors of his 
misery, who run to the spot, armed with euns, bows, and spears, and find no difficulty 
in despatching their blind and wearied foe. 
Another mode of destroying the Tiger is by means of a stronely constructed trap, 
made on the same principle as the ordinary mousetraps, which take their victim by 
