2CX> . *' HERE HE IS ! " 
within eight feet of the boy ; as soon as he was clear of the 
tree I let drive and distinctly heard the ball strike ; the beast 
uttering two or three savage growls, bounded into a strip 
of shola, throwing up a cloud of dust as he entered. I 
pitched into Francis and the gun boy for not sticking to 
HE STOPPED TO LOOK AT ME!" 
me, especially Francis who ought to have behaved better. 
We cautiously peered into the shola and found some dirty 
muddy looking stuff on the grass and leaves ; very little of 
it but the stench was awful, no doubt it came from his 
intestines. 1 then crossed the stream and looked into the 
shola with the glasses, but it was impossible to see far into it ; 
at one time a bunch of dead leaves and fern just outside made 
my heart beat^ it looked so like the tiger lying dead. The 
strip of shoia he first entered was so steep we could hardly get 
dow^n it ; the tiger in his headlong rush had carried everything 
