TIGERS. 77 



Leslie, who was then the judge magistrate, and 

 collector of the district, promised to call on him 

 for his assistance the first opportunity. Not long 

 after, a tiger killed a bullock about a mile from the 

 town ; the tailor was sent for, whose courage was 

 considerably abated ; however, he consented to sit 

 up in a michaun, which was soon erected, and 

 he took with him a young man, or rather a stout 

 boy. 



In the dead of the night, the tiger came to 

 feed on the carcass. The gloominess of the place 

 at such a time, with the fierce horrid look of the 

 tiger, had an instantaneous effect on poor Snip's 

 nerves, and threw him into a fit; the noise it 

 occasioned, made the tiger carry off the bullock 

 into thicker cover, instead of feeding on it where 

 it was. The boy seeing the tiger go off with the 

 bullock, tied his master to the michaun, descend- 

 ed, and ran to the nearest village, and gave the 

 alarm that his master was dead; but when the 

 people came to the michaun, they found him 

 perfectly recovered; protesting that he would 

 never sit up again in the night to shoot a tiger, 

 for he had seen the Devil. The truth of the whole 

 story I will not vouch for, although I have often 

 heard it related. It happened before I was 

 stationed at Chittrah. 



