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A MAGNIFICENT BOUND. 



ground, I called out to him to stop, when he was about one 

 hundred and forty yards off. I hoped he would stop and give 

 me a broad side, all he did was to look round and as I raised 

 the rifle and fired he dashed at speed across the swamp, and 

 at my second shot, which cut the grass underneath him, he 

 made a most magnificent bound across the stream and 

 disappeared into the wood. 



A MOST MAGNIFICENT BOUND. 



Another time my brother Richard had gone out after a 

 tiger which the Todas reported had killed a buffalo about an 

 hour before. He saw the tiger on first getting on the 

 ground and the tiger had seen him ; he was lying out in the 

 open watching the buffalo, and skulked into the shola and 

 would not come out again. He sat up till twelve and then 

 came home. The next morning Francis started early to 

 reconnoitre, and sent word back to say that the tiger was 



