CHAPTER XX. 



Morning employment interrupted A chance Tiger A quiet Shot 

 in the early morning Anecdote : an affair on an Elephant 

 Extract from a Journal Tigers right and left The Tiger 

 provider. 



IT was yet grey dawn on the following morning, 

 when Norman, calling to his less wakeful friends to 

 get up, kicked off his light blanket, and sat up on 

 the side of the bed. After a stretch and yawn, and 

 a look round, he again intimated to the occupiers of 

 the neighbouring beds which, like his own, were 

 placed outside the tents under a mangoe tree that 

 it was time to turn out. He next shouted to the 

 servant to bring the morning cup of tea, which was 

 accordingly soon placed before him. 



While engaged in sipping it, he amused himself 

 by picking up one or two mangoes which had fallen 

 close to his bed during the night, and throwing 

 them at the still recumbent forms of his comrades. 



He was in the very act of taking a deliberate 

 shot at Mackenzie, whose bulky figure, lying with its 

 back towards him, presented a large and tempting 



