WONDERFUL NERVE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1666, 19 September 1887, Page 3

WONDERFUL NERVE

An inoidont m the career of Sir Edward Bradford, the ne*!y appointed P lttloal Secretary at the India Cffica, deserves to bo recorded as showing the character of the man — one of the ablest but moH modeat of eolJiera who ever drew sword. As a young officer, doing duty with a Madras cav^ry regiment, Sir Edward was a keen sportsman. One day when tiger shooting he "missed h's mark," and soon foiled himself In the tiger's clutahes. It was an anxious moment, few of his friends being at hand. As a sportsman of experience, Sir Edward knew well that his best course was to lie quietly and sham death. The tiger aurveyed his prey, lookad round, and thinking all was safe, Bet steadily to work to make its meal Taking the young officer's hand io its month, It wbb steadily disposed of and the arm eaten to the elbow before Sir Edward's companions came up and released him. The cool resolution of the msn feigning death had been the moans of saving what has sinoe proved to ba a most valuable life, for, aa Sir Edward says when telling the story, had he moved, or uttered evt-n a groan, the tiger would have put en end to hi? exIstance before go ! ng on with hia repast Of course the shattered arm had to he rem.ved from the Bhru^der. It may be imagined what tho suffering wbb which the victim endured whilst lyiug, quite conscious, m the power of a voraoioua "m»n-eater "