A TIGER HUNT. 
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lacerating him considerably, and causing him to snort 
with anguish. The elephant, thus beset, pressed his 
ponderous body against a tree, beside which he had 
luckily stationed himself, and thus squeezed the tiger 
so unmercifully, that it was glad to relinquish its hold, 
and to drop from the elephant’s side. It then limped 
towards the cover from which it had been first started, 
but stopped at the root of a peepul,* panting from the 
effects of its late exertion, and the severe pressure of 
the elephant’s ribs, when a shikarry,t who had taken 
shelter among the lower branches, discharged his 
matchlock at the maimed brute, the hall hitting it in 
the very centre of the forehead. The tiger rolled 
upon its hack, when the man, thinking he had des- 
patched it, began to descend from the tree, but, to his 
amazement, the enraged creature sprang upon him, 
fixed its claws in his legs, and would have dragged 
him to the earth, had not one of the bowmen advanced 
to his rescue. The latter discharged a shaft with 
unerring precision at the tiger’s head, which entered 
the right eye and transfixed the brain. The animal 
immediately relaxed its hold, and fell dead, while the 
poor shikarry was taken from his perilous position 
a good deal tom about the legs, though not dan- 
gerously hurt. It appeared, upon examining the dead 
tiger, that the ball which had struck it in the head, 
had been turned by the thickness of the skull, having 
hit it obliquely, and, passing under the skin, had 
escaped near the left ear, so that the bmte was 
merely stunned for the moment. 
* A tree very common in the jungles of India, 
t Shikarry is a native hunter, 
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