TIGER SHOOTING.
Nt>w and then a soldier has been found kneeling on the battlefield as if about to take aim at the enemy, but stone dead. A bullet in the brain had converted him into a statue of himself. Captain Forsyth, in his "Highlands of Central India," tells of a similar effect produced by an explosive shell on a tiger. The captain, while in the howdah of his trained elephant, hunting a tiger, saw the beast crouching under a bush on the bank of a ravine. He took a steady aim, and fired a threeounce shell at the tiger's broad forehead. To his surprise, for the distance was but thirty yards, there was n*o result. Not a motion of the tiger acknowledged the shot. He rode round a quarter of a circle, b,ut still the tiger remained motionless, but looking intently in the same direction. Growing more and more amazed, the captain rode up nearer, with his rifle at full cock, but the tiger did not move. Then he caused the elephant to kick the beast. The tiger fell over. He was stone dead. The shell had struck him full in the centre of the forehead, burst in his brain, and killed him instantly.
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Northland Age, Volume VI, Issue 4, 13 September 1909, Page 2
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