Jungle By- Ways in India 



up, and bang went a first barrel, followed quickly 

 by the second. The tiger held steadily on without 

 a sound. Now he was past B , and making for 

 me. As I fired he dropped into the long grass 

 and disappeared. All was quiet. I saw him 

 turn over, and so did my mahout, with much gut- 

 tural joy that it should have been our day. This 



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Down the centre of the grass came galloping a fine tiger. 



was the end of the beat, and as I saw that B - 

 had not a notion where the tiger had dropped, 

 or even that it had dropped, as a bank had hid 

 the later stages from him, we scrambled down 

 the cliff on our side, and went up warily through 

 the grass, shouting to him to cover his side. 

 Slowly we approached the spot where the tiger had 

 turned over, A - coming up on the right, whilst 

 the beating elephants were lined across in front. 

 It was unnecessary, however, as ' stripes ' had 



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