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THE TIGER 
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should take up a position in the boughs, and that we 
would beat towards him by pelting the bottom of the 
ravine with stones ; should the tigress break back, I 
could stop her from the howdah, and should she 
move forward, she must pass directly beneath the tree 
upon which Berry would be seated. This plan was 
carried out, but the plucky policeman insisted upon 
descending into the nullah and walking up the 
bottom, while the natives upon either side bom¬ 
barded the banks with stones. 
There was absolutely nothing alive in that 
inviting nullah. I had walked Moolah Bux slowly 
along, looking down from the margin of the ravine, 
and upon arrival at Berry’s perch I took him up behind 
me in the rear compartment of the howdah. I felt 
almost sure that, although we had drawn a blank up 
to the present time, the tigress would be lying some¬ 
where among the numerous deep but narrow nullahs 
which drained into the main channel that we had 
just examined. We therefore determined to leave 
all the men seated upon a knoll on the highest 
ground, while we should try the various nullahs upon 
Moolah Bux; as he could walk slowly along the 
margin so close to the edge that we should be able 
to look down into the bottom of each ravine, and in 
the parched state of vegetation nothing could escape 
our view. 
The natives were well satisfied with this arrange¬ 
ment, and they took their seats upon a grassy hill, 
which afforded a position from which they could 
watch our movements. 
