A Night with a Tiger.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 18 February 1890, Page 3

A Night with a Tiger.

Godfrey and I stood ready to fire. The Hindu, perspiring at every pore, discended the ladder, which, he lowered, and placed horizontally

on thp -window sill and 'ashed it t° the bottom of the netting and agai 11 iastened that to the two lower stnples on either side. Tbe ihing was 'lone ; f^r fiwpy iv fie east the dawn vrs breaking, a -ove which the monii p star was slowly paling his silver fire. ''•lit, R.myt',. the shutters are still fast nfd!" •" " Sahib,- i unfastened them ; they • aro op n the breadth of a man's haud; "presently the light will strain hrongh " ",^^^ fetef^anotlwr rifle:"' ■" "\wifl»»ne reffiiijnod *'tbolc tne gun, and gave him my revolver A li ht brftßth of wind parsed murmu^ng through the fent'very Clowns of the slendpr ooooa palms, tworgrpat spears- of light shot up in the sky, gain'eWhere in tho gardon n. brid snnjr, tho snn hnd rison. "Wait the. signal," whispered niv brother.; " now, Pamei '!> ; Hindu. Iciielt d)wn and imifnte-1 the hlpfltinjr of a kid that bal ]o«;t his mother', At tho in tanfi Ramee sprang to his feet the silence was re t by a sundering ornsh r.nd a sudden terrifio | roar ; tho shutt rs wor*> torn from j their soe' o's, a Gfivnt mass hurled \ itgslf prpoinitiitelv'thronwh' the window, find the tiffor, with its 'lend and sl'oulders bnriod in',t'»e Kmocovered tJe l >n\ was p>npp]insr in mnd.-lonpd fury with an cnemv he oouM no' se^ nor mate mncti impression upon. . .. ... Otuv^ivVp'' wet'e* at nqr shonMers. The anima 1 was twen y fe^t f.-nm us, tearing np t\m jfravel'ed p:lh, mul oo.iir.jor itso' 1 in hie tn'o.ab'e confusion in t.h« broken nfif.tintt and sp'intered 'nd-ler. Bflmee uUm"rl a loiidcrv The.-. aaimaT barl..fw«»d = his l)fi!fl, aiifl's'ooiS frith its ■'•lie Mnjr moufch in«n pn'o ced lis^njivr r.ttitude. Ii was thpm«me"t G'odfre v h*d waite'i for. and li^fi pd. The tiger, evidently not seeing Mm'. r ppran? at thfl window aga'n hut mi B ed tho opening. lini >l insrifc c o'f «?f?Rin?,l! the wa^l anrl /ii.lliTiffnn fbe "h'olrpn ?^)nt teiv. Aft the minut" it r ich^d t aimed at the sp"t bel'iud th" 'lmnlder and firod ; it gavp a con'*u's'v«» ]o"t"> fln^ tu'MiA'l -t9 Wno'oVt in nnv l l^p. r i:t-v"?ri'e?»^ l Ood^.-PV ! fi • d rfitinfifad- "'toM Tiic 1o do tllP Bine. < R'olv! hack!" c-ie' TJairiee, Th an< mm' had jrafhff'd ' i'B^f tocrotlier n*i 1 spr ng forvnrd wiM 1 Op nf)i'.»!i?.v bo»>nd. -nl rol'erl over. w jvi, o R^'o-ipi dying v^\ When we oime tn nr-a ure 'h° bru'e aftfiiwai'ds «c fo-md it w«° fiC-oPM fn'.t, from the nose to the tip o* the tail. TTIE EOT).