ADVENTURE WITH A TIGER.
A sportsman had been out shooting all day on the Nilghiri Hills, Madras without getting a shot at anything, when 'towards evening his shikari (native hunter,) who was a short distance in front, suddenly raised his hand and whispered : “Be careful. Look.”
He soon saw the cause. A herd of deer were quietly grazing near a small pool to their left.
They crouched down and crept towards the edge of the water, so as to get a better position for a shot ; and, having arrived there, the hunter selected a beautiful black buck, which appeared to be the leader of the herd, and proceeded to take aim, when, glancing to tho right, he fancied he saw a slight movement of the low bushes a few yards away.
A suddeq impulse seized him, and, changing the direction of his aim, he let fly at the spot. The herd weaa out of sight instantly, and, of course,* there was no chance of coming up with them again that day. He was about to rave at his folly when he heard the shikari calling “Sahib, sahib. Come here.”
He ran towards him, and there, to his surprise, lay a full-grown tiger, dead, with a bullet through his brain He proved to be a notorious maneater, so that shot probably saved the sportsmau's life.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 7, 18 September 1906, Page 2
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