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was soon erected, and he took with him a 

 young man or rather stout boy. 



In the dead of the night, the tiger came to 

 feed on the carcase. The gloominess of the 

 place at such a time, with the fierce horrid 

 look of the tiger, had an instantaneous effect 

 on poor Snip's nerves, and threw him into a 

 fit; the noise it occasioned, made the tiger 

 carry off the bullock into thicker cover in- 

 stead of feeding on it where it was. The 

 boy seeing the tiger go off with the bullock, 

 tied his master to the Michaun, descended, 

 and ran to the nearest village, and gave the 

 alarm that his master was dead; but when 

 the people came to the Michaun, they found 

 him perfectly recovered; protesting- that he 

 would never sit up again in the night to 

 shoot a tiger, for he had seen the Devil. 

 The truth of the whole story I will not vouch 

 for, although I have often heard it related. It 

 happened before I was stationed at Chittrah* 



