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her, crowbar in hand; she bolted immediately round the corner, 

 through the yard gate, and leaped into her den, from which she 

 had escaped. Once inside, she cowered down, and lay as quiet as 

 possible." 



Strange to say, the boy escaped with such slight injury that he 

 was well again in about eight days, but he was so terribly 

 frightened that he never spoke for four hours after the occur- 

 rence. The lawsuit that followed cost Mr. Jamrach 300Z. So 

 the episode was an expensive one for him. 



So many stories have been circulated condemnatory of tigers, that 

 one in their favour is certainly worth quoting, if only for its rarity. 

 In Bishop Heber's " Indian Journal " there is the following : — 

 " I asked the Jemautdar of Gurmukteser if there were many tigers 

 in the jungle around Tighree ? He said plenty : but there was a 

 very wonderful thing in the neighbourhood ; that there were two 

 Hindoo yogis [religious mendicants] who lived in different cells 

 in the wilderness, about two coss [coss — two miles] from the 

 village, in opposite directions ; of whom the one was never hurt by 

 the tigers, though living in the neighbourhood where they most 

 abounded, and where no other man would pass a night for half 

 Rohilcund, while, to the other, a tiger actually came every night 

 and licked his hands, and fondled and lay by him for hours. 

 .... He expressed himself very clearly that the saint was still 

 alive — that he was very old, and went quite naked, with a long 

 white beard and hair, — that his dwelling was a little hut among the 

 long grass, not far from the road-side in the way to Gurmukteser, 

 and that there were people who had been there at night, and seen 

 him and his tiger together. He added that he lived by charity, 

 but never asked for anything except he was actually hungry, 

 which was seldom the case, as from his high reputation he was 

 generally supplied." 



