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to have two claws, to fasten round the arm of my 

 child." 



" When they are cut out, you shall have two," 

 said Mackenzie, who just then joined the party 

 round the tiger. " But see that they are all col- 

 lected, and none pilfered by the villagers." 



" I will obey your honour's commands," was the 

 respectful reply of the old servant. But when his 

 master had retired, he deputed Norman's young, 

 scampish, dressing-boy, Baloo, to undertake that 

 important duty, greatly to the latter's satisfac- 

 tion. Mr. Baloo proclaimed aloud that Tie should 

 permit no purloining, and was very imperious and 

 exacting in demanding the surrender to him of 

 every individual claw. The process of skinning, 

 too, was one in which he took infinite delight, 

 having received some private instructions from his 

 master. 



The day was yet young ; so after a light tiffin of 

 cold cheetul and thin, unleavened cakes called 

 locally, in some parts of Bombay, " apps," and 

 elsewhere " chupatties " washed down with some 

 brandy-and-water, the sportsmen resolved to try the 

 plain country in the immediate neighbourhood, for 

 peafowl, partridges, or any other small game they 

 might meet, with which to replenish the exhausted 

 larder. 



