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youngster, who shook his ears ; she took no notice of 

 him till she had given her head another couple of 

 douches, when she backed slowly out of the water, 

 and he plunged at her to suckle. She pushed him 

 away and passed her trunk over his back ; this he 

 seemed to regard as an objectionable order to get 

 into his tub, for he began to scream as shrilly as a 

 pig, and spun round, turning tail on the water. Then 

 his mother took sand in her trunk and blew it over 

 herself and him ; he enjoyed this particularly when 

 the sand blast was applied to his belly. Having 

 apparently got him into a good temper, she took a 

 step slowly towards the water, her trunk lying over 

 his shoulders ; he had been turning about under the 

 soothing sand blast and was facing the water again. 

 The moment his mother moved waterwards he burst 

 out into a squeal, and the indulgent parent stopped. 

 Then something seemed to alarm her ; she took her 

 trunk off her child, threw out her ears, and her tail 

 stopped swinging. There must have been a foe near, 

 for after standing fully ten or fifteen seconds with the 

 calf close under her flank, she wheeled round sharply 

 towards our hiding-place, walked up the sand and 

 disappeared into the jungle. It seemed as though 

 the squeals of the calf had attracted a tiger. 



TIGER AND LEOPARD 



I remember being told when I first arrived in the 

 country that "there are no tigers in Burmah." The 

 statement, to put it mildly, was incorrect. There 



