A CASE OF SECOND SIGHT 



and getting out of bed apparently followed him into 

 another room. 



Mrs. H , who had seen nothing herself, was naturally 



at a loss to understand what she meant, but feehng some- 



w Jiat alarmed, got up at once and followed Mrs. C into 



the room where she had gone, to find her lying on the floor 

 in a swoon. 



On coming round she told Mrs. H that she felt sure 



iier husband had met with some accident, as his clothes were 

 all torn and he was bleeding from wounds on his face and 

 body. 



The next day Mrs. H received a telegram saying that 



C was dead and asking her to break the news to his wife. 



The story was told me by Mrs. H herself on whom 



the incident had naturally made a great impression, and 

 as she was by no means an hysterical person, or given to 

 romancing, I can only suppose she was repeating what had 

 c;tually occurred. 



In writing a narrative of adventures, extending over 

 so long a period as thirty years, it is difficult to remember 

 the sequence of events. I must therefore make this my 

 Kcuse for introducing here an account of an experience 

 with some tigers which should have been included in the 

 description of the shooting expedition I made with Colonel 

 Philips, part of which was described in a previous chapter. 



Of the two tigers bagged on this trip, the one which 

 fell to my rifle was a large heavy beast with an extra- 

 ordinarily short tail. 



The men had marked him down in a small dry sandy 

 ravine with barely any cover, the last place one would have 

 thought a tiger would he up in, more especially as there 

 Nvas a thickly wo(xied ravine not very far. 



But, as our Bhils remarked in their quaintly worded 

 Hindustani, ''Wo bagh burru lumba sey aya," * and I 

 have no doubt that having made a heavy meal, he had 

 used that ravine as a temporary shelter on his way to 

 iuavicr cover, and had thus been caught napping. We 

 found later that he had in fact killed a bullock just before. 



* " That tiger ha* oome a loug distauoe." 



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