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What ! " asked Hawkes, " docs he not give the 

 regular cry, which sounds like ' Here 's the body 

 of a dead Hindoo ooo where where here 

 here?'" 



" No," was the reply. " His cry is even less 

 euphonious than the one you so agreeably describe. 

 It is, I believe, that of the old jackal which has 

 been turned out of the pack. I do not mean that 

 whenever it is heard, a tiger is invariably supposed 

 to be near ; but it is considered that those alone 

 who so howl have the honour of accompanying the 

 tiger on his nightly rambles. It is probably a 

 merely accidental matter altogether." 



" I remember reading of a case somewhere," Mac- 

 kenzie said, " regarding a man an officer who was 

 a sceptic on the subject. He was in ambush for 

 deer at night, in the middle of a field, heard the 

 peculiar cry of the jackal, and soon after, to his 

 astonishment for it was quite unexpected in that 

 part a tiger made its appearance. Of course, he 

 drew the conclusion that there was something more 

 than fiction in the belief of the natives." 



Rugonauth now came in to say that he was 

 unable to mark anything down, and had not even 

 come on the pug of the tiger which had been killed 

 in the early morning, having, with Roopur, gone to 

 examine some covers miles away in the opposite 



