Wild Beasts a Study of the Characters And Habits of the Elephant Lion Leopard
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He had loitered behind, and before he could reach me, by slow degrees out came the head of an enormous tiger, close to me, almost within hitting distance. Unfortu- nately my lad, and the Burmese escort, saw it too, and The Tiger 243 halted, calling out ' The tiger ! the tiger ! he will be killed ! he will be killed ! ' meaning me. I did not take my eyes off the tiger's, but put my hand behind my back, saying in Burmese to the boy, ' Give me my gun ; ' but he and the others only kept jabbering, ...' He will be killed ! he will be killed ! ' Not a man stirred, though they were all armed and loaded. So there we were, the tiger and I, face to face. At last, thinking to frighten it away, I lifted the stick and pretended to hit it a back-handed blow, at the same time making a sort of yelling noise. The stick was over my left shoulder, but so far from being intimidated, the tiger rushed at me, and I caught him a blow on the side of the head and floored him. " Seeing him pick himself up with his back towards me, I thought he was going to bolt, and for the first time turned round, and said, 'Now give me my gun.
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