TIGERS AND PUTRID FLESH. 
"'Yesterday, the last day of the month, I went out about 
* mid-day (it was a wet morning) with the avaricious hope of 
'adding something more to the month's bag. My first point 
'was to visit the carcass of the bison I killed last Monday, 
yesterday week, and if a tiger was there to bag him 
' first, and then go on and bag something else. I expressed 
* myself to this effect to my friend before starting. Well, 
' when I arrived at the spot where J left the dead bison, lo 
*and behold it was not there! A broad trail, showed pretty 
'plainly that a tiger had carried it oflf to a more convenient 
'dining-room. We crept along as lightly as mice after the 
'missing carcass. By Jove, we might have shut our eyes and 
* hunted it, the drag stunk so ! About two hundred yards 
'down the hill we came on the remains of His Royal 
* Highness's first meal, which appears to have consisted of 
' about half the bison. As I was peering round I beheld, at the 
' foot of a rock, a good deal concealed by bamboos and bushes » 
'the long striped hide of the tiger himself lying at full length on 
'his side. * ♦ * I was, I should say, between forty and fifty 
* paces ofT, and at first could not tell where his head was, whether 
' towards or away from me ; but his suddenly putting his paw over 
' his head to brush away flies gave me the required information. 
' Cocking my rif^c I took a deliberate pot to catch him in the 
* chest, just under the armpit. No savage roar replied to the re- 
* port, but the tiger sprung to his feet, and I sprung out of sight' " 
" During my experience of over a score of years as a 
shikar ie in the Soonderbuns, the haunt par excellence oi the 
royal quarry, I have frequently found tigers feeding on game 
shot by me, and that they prefer to wait to eat it until such 
time as it sends forth a highly unpleasant odour. Out of the 
many hi stances that I remember 1 shall select one which I 
think rather curious, and calculated to hiterest the reader. 
" Many years ago, as I was sailing down the Passur river 
