THE DEAD TIGER 



THOUGH he has managed to get across the river, the tiger here receives his coup-de-grace. 

 Brought to bay, he has apparently made a savage attempt to die gloriously by attacking his 

 pursuers, and has no doubt succeeded in terrifying and perhaps severely wounding one or more 

 of the elephants. The terror, indeed, with which he inspires any but the most courageous and 

 well trained of these animals is so great that they not only swerve from his charge, but are 

 frequently seized with a panic and turn tail at the very moment the sportsman is about to take 

 aim. Here the central elephant expresses his mingled terror and vengeance by viciously 

 plunging his tusks into the body of his fallen foe, while crushing in his sides with the full 

 weight of his ponderous knees. His fellow to the right is lending a helping foot, while he 

 raises his trunk and trumpets forth the victory. The beaters rush up to join in the triumph, 

 and the sportsman who has followed the chase on horseback dismounts from his terror-stricken 

 nag, for whose nerves the neighbourhood of even a dying tiger is too much. The various 

 shaped haudahs are such as are described under the first Plate, though none of them closely 

 resembles the approved pattern of the present day. The covering seen on the head of the 

 elephant between the two more prominent of his fellows is called a sarpesh, or hood, and 

 though rarely used by Europeans, is by natives considered an indispensable part of his full dress. 



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