WATCHING FOR THE TIGER. 
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place ; it had been dragged but a few paces arid did not 
appear to be much eaten. 1 commeaced watching about nine 
o'clock. At first I sat on the bough of the tree, but in that 
position 1 found I could only fire from the left shoulder, so I 
shifted to the ladder, and having brought the rifle slings I was 
able to hang the rilks on the bough near me. At first I took 
my big rifie *'Sal," but being afraid the recoil would knock 
HE STOOD TO LISTEh\ LOOKING THE OTHER WAY'. 
me clean off the ladder, I changed it^^for Ross, which was 
loaded with projectiles. During the watch I noticed several 
of those large black hornets, with a yellow ring round their 
bodies, very busy^about the carcass of the bison. I had 
previously seen one of these hornets deliberately robbing the 
nest of a small kind of wasp, digging out the young larvse and 
