at tigers with a shotgun. He met one and attacked it at about 30 yards aiming at the throat with The ball of lock shot cut one of the angular veins & the blood sprouted in a stream pattering the herbage around but the tiger fled wounded, He trailed it a long way by the blood from but could not find it. Evidently this tiger escaped alive! These instances would lead one to believe that tigers do not often charge but are usually quite cowardly when wounded & less playful than lions. They growl & make a loud pant, more often when agitated or annoyed but this is done simply to frighten or intimid-ate the encro- ing I told a story of a deaf dumb Chinaman vs tiger, This man was leading a goat by a rope along the road