ANGLING FOR TIGERS 135 



The beaters are paid, the shikaries receive their sheep and 

 brandy, there is feasting in camp, and every one is happy, but 

 none so greatly as he who, dinner over, pays another visit to 

 the tiger, perhaps his first, a trophy of which he may well be 

 proud. If it depended more on one's own exertion, and if one's 

 qualities as a shikari were tested more, and brought into play 

 to arrive at his happy consummation, the enjoyment would be 

 vastly enhanced, but unfortunately in the part of India spoken 

 of this is impossible. 



