188 SHIKAR SKETCHES. 



There is no more striking incident connected 

 with tiger-hunting than to witness the fearful and 

 impotent rage of a wounded tiger. When out 

 with Clay of my regiment, he fired at arid hit a 

 tiger in the back, so paralysing it. I then walked 

 close up to it, and never shall I forget the wretch- 

 ed brute's mad but futile efforts to get at me till 

 I put him out of his misery. He could only reach 

 a short circle in front of him, but within this 

 stones, sticks, and the earth were torn up with 

 teeth and claws, and he even seized his own paws 

 in his mouth, biting them through and through, 

 whilst a mass of mingled foam and blood dripped 

 from his jaws. 



