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the cattle working in the forest. But I here again 
suffered a rather serious reverse. 
The mahouts came in one May morning and re- 
ported that there was a tiger obstructing them in 
cutting fodder for the elephants, and it became a 
duty to proceed to investigate the complaint; so, 
taking with me one stanch female elephant and 
one much younger and still untried, I proceeded to 
the spot, and soon found the tiger. He was very 
morose and gave me every chance, and, when struck 
by a ‘500-bore hollow-fronted bullet, went some dis- 
tance and lay in the grass. It was extremely hot, 
the gun-barrels were burning to the touch, and both 
men and elephants felt the sun greatly, so that I 
wished to go home, and return later in the evening 
or next morning to recover a beast that was 
evidently in no way disabled ; but I foolishly listened 
to the clamour of my men, who insisted, as usual, 
that the tiger was dead, and consented to follow 
him up almost at once. 
As might have been expected, he instantly charged, 
selecting the small elephant, who as promptly fled, 
and might indeed have made her escape, as the tiger 
was merely striking in an undecided manner ; but, 
unfortunately, he inflicted a slight scratch on her 
hind-leg, and the foolish animal turned on him. 
She was at once seized as in a vice, the claws of both 
fore-paws being embedded in her head, and the fangs 
in the base of her trunk. From this grip there was 
no escape, and, the tiger continuing to pull in heavy 
jerks, the elephant came down on her knees. At this 
stage the driver described a parabola through the 
air, and lay motionless in the grass ; while the tiger, 
