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AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. 



of finding him. The next day I sent some men to look him 

 up ; they followed the track for some distance and noticed 

 that the tiger had gone away on three legs. From what I 

 know now I should say the beast was hit, for I never knew or 

 heard of a tiger leaving the marks of his claws on the ground 





AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. 



unless he was wounded, as he cannot afford to blunt them. 

 This was the only tiger we saw, except one which my com- 

 panion Watson came upon quite suddenly ; he was looking 

 over a bank into a nullah, when he saw a large tiger lying 

 down quite close to him ; the brute was wide awake, got up, 



