when a tiger sprang out upon the goat & killed it. The man then fought chiefly all behind of the rope + the pulled the animal quite along with him whereupon the tiger abandoned his kill & fled into the bush while the man fled with the dead goat at the end of his rope to the nearest village, where he was proclaimed a hero also more frightened & rattled than he had lost presence of mind enough to relinquish his hold on the rope. The method of killing his prey used by the tiger is according to C. by biting it in the throat although he has not actually seen tiger make a kill. The necks of his victims are always broken. He infers that the tigers bend the head back until it breaks. The heads however are seldom taken. No told of a case where a Chinese boy was eaten by a tiger which