1 88 A MAGNIFICENT BOUND. 
ground, I called out to him to stop, when he was about one 
hundred and forty yards off. I hoped he would stop and give 
me a broad side, all he did was to look round and as I raised 
the rifle and fired he dashed at speed across the swamp, and 
at my second shot, which cut the grass underneath him, he 
made a most magnificent bound across the stream and 
disappeared into the wood. 
A MOST MAGmFICMNT Wl/^D. 
Another time my brother Richard had gone out after a 
tiger which the Todas reported had killed a buffalo about an 
hour before. He saw the tiger on first getting on the 
ground and the tiger had seen him ; he was lying out in the 
open watching the buffalo, and skulked into the shoki and 
would not come out again. He sat up till twelve and then 
came home. The next morning Francis started early to 
reconnoitre, and sent word back to say ihal tlie tiger was 
