248 SPORTING AND 



up to the present time, and have been 

 at the death of about a hundred 

 tigers already, and I hope to see the 

 destruction of double that number before 

 I become too old to take part in the man- 

 liest of all manly sports. Though I had 

 vowed enmity against all tigers, I had 

 doubly sworn it againt one in particular, 

 and I need not say that this is the one that 

 killed my mother, for she did not survive her 

 injuries many days. After she had been 

 buried a week I thought it time to look 

 him up. I knew his haunts and where I 

 was most likely to fall in with him ; I also 

 had a private mark by which I could 

 swear to him out of a thousand, this was a 

 very broad black stripe down his side 

 which was quite remarkable ; he was also 

 much larger than the common run of 

 tigers and his ears were set further back ; 



