TIGEES RIGHT AND LEFT. 3ST 



man replied. " At any rate, I know for certain of 

 one instance of a successful right-and-left shot ; 

 for it happened to a dear friend of my own 

 now gone, poor fellow ! whose journal is in my 

 possession." 



" How was it ? " asked the ever-ready Hawkes. 



" I will tell you. I should premise, though, by 

 saying that only one of them was full grown that 

 was a tigress ; the other was her cub, about half or 

 three parts grown. ' By-the-bye, I believe I have the 

 journal with me, so I may as well read the brief 

 humorous description, only written, of course, as a 

 private record." 



Norman went into the tent, and soon returned 

 with an old note-book, nearly full of manuscript. 

 He sighed as he opened it, thinking of the cheery- 

 smile and the laughing, deep, brilliant blue eye of 

 the friend of his youthful manhood. He thought 

 of the warm-hearted lad, the determined and daring 

 man, who had shared with him many of the sports 

 of his earlier days in India. He remembered him 

 as he was cool, resolute, and dauntless ; of a nerve 

 which quailed at nothing, and therefore a man well 

 calculated to distinguish himself in those sports 

 where pluck and resolution are requisite. As he 

 glanced over the pages of the book, there rose before 

 him the vision of the merry, clever writer the free, 



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