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that same night, either this, or another panther killed 

 a pony close to the village stack-yard ! I believe, 

 from the servants' account of the canine tragedy^ 

 that the panther came into a road near the tents, 

 and that Carlo, seeing him, ran towards him and 

 barked, whereupon the brute seized and made off 

 with the poor old dog. I also tried a beat for a 

 tiger during the holidays, but that too failed, as the 

 animal had left the thicket in which we hoped that 

 he might still be lying. 



Captain (now Colonel) W. (late of the 43rd 

 Regiment) bagged a tiger in a very lucky way 

 when he was in camp with me at Bandipur in 

 the Mysore district. He was out after elephants, 

 and, while following the tracks of two, came upon 

 the remains of a bison calf which had been killed 

 and eaten by a tiger, and, moreover, caught sight 

 of the slayer moving off from the place. He 

 followed the elephants, and came up with them 

 when they were bathing in a mud hole, and found 

 that only one of them had any tusks at all, and 

 those were but poor specimens. 



He therefore returned to the remains of the 

 bison calf, and making a screen of boughs on the 

 ground, sat with his men and awaited the return 

 of the tiger, who came at about 4 p.m. W. at 

 once fired, the animal fell to the shot, but got up 

 again and bolted. W. ran after him, loading and 

 firing as quickly as possible, and soon reduced him 

 to a sitting position. An old spaniel bitch of W.'s, 

 which was out with him, then ran round and 

 headed the tiger, who put back his ears, snarled, 



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