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to say from which wound it proceeded, and I 

 therefore contented myself with pointing out 

 that the hole in the side was the hole of my bullet, 

 and did not claim the tigress and was not present 

 at the post-mortem. The natives who skinned 

 and cut up the tigress were told to produce the 

 bullets, and mine was duly produced, and was 

 admitted by Major Lumsden to be not his. His 

 bullet, which was also an expanding one, was 

 not found. On the following morning, when we 

 were looking at the skin, Lumsden himself noticed 

 a small round hole in the skin of the belly, but he 

 was so convinced that he had shot the tigress 

 that he did not give the matter much attention. 

 I said nothing, but thought a good deal. It was 

 clear to me that Lumsden had missed the tigress, 

 and that I had put the first bullet into her, and 

 that she had then been killed by Channer, whose 

 bullet had entered the back and come out through 

 the belly. I kept my conclusions, however, to 

 myself, merely resolving that I would always 

 be present at a post-mortem in the future. Poor 

 Lumsden was a good sportsman, and was perfectly 

 convinced that he had shot the tigress; but, as 

 already said, a painstaking investigation is often 

 necessary before it can be determined who has 

 scored the first hit. 



A forest officer of my acquaintance told me 

 that on one occasion he had arranged a tiger- 

 shoot for two military officers. One had, if I 

 remember right, shot a tiger before, and the other 

 had not. The tiger went first to the more 

 experienced sportsman of the two, who fired at 

 it. The tiger then went to the other man, who 



