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every year in India. As to his springing powers, a tiger has 

 been known to pull a native from a tree at a height of 

 eighteen feet from the ground. The man who slays a tiger 

 haunting an Indian village does good service to the com- 

 munity. That's a sort of shoot not to be despised. It needs 

 cool courage and iron nerves. It means that the shikari 

 takes his life in his hand." 



DAILY GRAPHIC." Lieut. -Colonel Frank Sheffield, com- 

 manding ist Cadet Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of 

 London Regiment), has hit upon a novel method of raising 

 funds towards the building and maintenance of the head- 

 quarters of the battalion. Having had many and strange 

 adventures in India, he has, in a little book entitled ' How 

 I Killed the Tiger,' set down a detailed account of one of 

 his most daring encounters and one of his narrowest escapes. 

 He has also added other chapters on Indian subjects, 

 which in their way are of use and interest. The profits 

 from the sale of this little book are being devoted to the 

 building and maintenance funds. We understand that a free- 

 hold site has been acquired at a cost of ^2,000 and given 

 to the battalion . . . The incident described cannot fail to 

 interest every sportsman, and the book certainly deserves, 

 both on account of itself and of the object for which it has 

 been published, very hearty support. There are numerous 

 illustrations." 



LAND AND WATER." With the laudable desire of raising 

 funds for the ist Cadet Battalion Royal Fusiliers, Lieut. -Col. 

 Frank Sheffield, the commanding officer, has written a book 

 entitled 'How I Killed the Tiger.' It is a volume of 100 pages, 

 illustrated by twenty-six full page drawings of the events described. 

 The author attacked and killed a very large tiger, with no better 

 weapon than a muzzle-loading shot-gun which he charged with ball 

 for the occasion, but was unfortunate enough to be most severely 

 mauled in the encounter. His restoration to health was, as he 

 himself contends, quite miraculous. The latter part of the 

 book contains a short description of India and its inhabitants, 

 for the author complains that in spite of all that has been 

 written and read upon the subject, we English folk are still 

 very ignorant about our great Eastern Empire. All who wish 

 to aid Col. Sheffield in the work that he is doing, by buying 

 the record of this remarkable adventure or by other means, 

 are requested to communicate to him at the Headquarters of 

 the Battalion, Mansfield Road, N.W." 



EXAMINER." Without professing any great interest in 

 military or sporting matters, it is impossible to read the incident 

 here related without being affected both by its peril and pathos. 

 It shows the author to be possessed of exceptional skill, courage, 

 and physical strength ; not only in having ' Killed the Tiger,' but 

 in having lived through his terrible injuries and sufferings to tell 

 the tale. And he certainly tells it very well ; his style is clear and 

 manly ; our only perplexity being the account of his sudden con- 

 version on page twenty-two. While the last to doubt the power 

 of spiritual forces, the change from being ' more irreligious than 

 any heathen ' to full consciousness of Christ's presence, as the 



