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and partly eaten one of their cows while 

 we were beating for him at a distance. 



I rode off directly, but before I 

 reached the spot met a triumphant 

 procession carrying the dead tiger. I 

 then learned that the nets had been at 

 once pitched and a beat commenced, 

 but that the tiger had shown himself 

 in so savage a mood that both the 

 beaters and the spearmen, whose post 

 was inside the net, had been cowed, and 

 that the latter had left their usual posts 

 and got behind the net. The tiger, 

 however, of his own accord made at the 

 net, and rearing himself up, placed his 

 two fore paws against it ; there was no 

 one to knock away the inner props at 

 this critical moment, the tiger was 

 roaring angrily, and struggling to force 



