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that night, and would not again return, I 

 went home to bed. 



" At daylight on going to see if this surmise 

 had been correct, I was mortified enough to 

 find that the carcase had been again removed, 

 and nearly all eaten, scarcely anything left 

 but the bones. There was a chance, however, 

 of the animal's again coming the next night 

 for what little was left, and determined to 

 get a shot at it if possible, I made prepa- 

 rations accordingly. 



" About ten yards from the spot where the 

 carcase was now left grew a little wild pear 

 bush, which branched into three forks, a few 

 feet from the ground ; with a few tsvigs and 

 small branches, I made a nest in this fork, 

 placing them on the side facing the carcase, 

 so thickly, as almost to conceal a person 

 crouching behind. It never entered my 

 imagination to conceive that this nightly 

 visiter might be a tiger, and that it would 

 perhaps be advisable to have my seat a little 

 further from the ground. No tiger had been 

 seen in the vicinity during the winter, and 



