She was fighting it and at the same time battling with the strengthening wind when suddenly something sprang on her with the yell of a tiger and flung her on the sand, pinning her there.
Caldwell, with whom I had hunted tigerin south China, volunteered to get them with me.
Bears and leopards are not uncommon, and occasionally a tiger is killed by the natives.
But before Godfrey could stop him, Carefinotu had rushed at the place where the tiger disappeared, his hunting-knife in his hand.
If any tiger or panther attempted to come up into the branches of the sequoia, it would be easy to defend the hole through which he would have to pass.
The tiger then rolled into the river, of which the waters, swollen by the rains, carried it away with the quickness of a torrent.
It was the wild beasts prowling in the neighbourhood, and, alarming to relate, the howling of the tiger and of the hyæna, and the roaring of the panther and the lion were this time blended in one formidable concert.
He had seized a revolver; and this time, before Godfrey and Carefinotu could hinder him, and not knowing himself what he did, but believing that he saw a tiger standing before him, he had fired!
It was really a tiger of large stature resting on its hind legs with its forepaws on the trunk of a tree, and ready to spring.
Thus armed the active negro would not have hesitated to throw himself before a tiger or any animal of the worst description.
Imagine the behaviour of people round a slain tiger that does not compel them to fly, and may yet stretch out a dreadful paw!
As a last finishing touch, we suspended in the centre hall a series of large coloured engravings, which the cathedral of Saint Michael might well have envied, for they represented the chase of the tiger in all its varied phases.
No tiger could have acted in more ferocious guise, or displayed a greater relish for the tide of life.
Did you know beforehand that the tiger was going to seize you?
A tiger will crouch up in an exceedingly small clump of grass or bush, and will sometimes almost allow himself to be trodden on before moving.
We hurried back to find, as we had expected, that the tiger was gone.
I had been at Jubbalpore about a year, when I was woke up one night by a native, who came in to say that at about eight o'clock a tiger had killed a man in his village, and had dragged off the body.
He had not said two words before his voice was drowned in a terrific roar, and in an instant the tiger had sprung upon him, struck him to the ground, seized him as a cat would a mouse, and started off with him at a trot.
The tiger had made off at the approach of daylight into the jungle, which was about two miles distant.
This tiger had been doing great damage, and had carried off about thirty men, women, and children.
We at once fired three shots, our usual signal that the tiger was dead, and in a few minutes were surrounded by the villagers, who hardly knew whether to be delighted at the death of their enemy, or to grieve over the injury to the fakir.
I forgot to say that as the tiger broke out one of the village shikarees had fired at and, he declared, wounded him.
The natives would not allow that there was any cause for fear, as the tiger would not dare to touch so holy a man.
Our belief in the respect of the tiger for sanctity was by no means strong, and we determined to go in and warn him of the presence of the brute in the wood.
The tiger had seized him by the shoulder, which was terribly torn, and the bone broken.
We based our request upon the fact that the tiger was a notorious man-eater, and had been doing immense damage.
If a tiger or panther kills a person, the Kudang is called, and he, on the following Sunday, goes through a performance, to prevent a similar fate overtaking others.
In another part of the Saora country, the above sacrifice is unknown; and, when a person is killed by a tiger or panther, a buffalo is sacrificed to the Kulba of the deceased three months afterwards.
So, ever after, they dare not have a numeral above 12, for fear of a tiger repeating the performance.
One day, long ago, some Saoras were measuring grain in a field, and, when they had measured 12 measures of some kind, a tiger pounced in on them and devoured them.
Two pigs are killed outside the village, and every man, woman, and child is made to walk over the ground whereon the pig's blood is spilled, and the Kudang gives to each individual some kind of tiger medicine as a charm.
As well think of entering the cage of a tigeras to take up our abode in a heaven ruled by such a God,--a heaven controlled by a God bereft of reason by the ungovernable action of his own passions.
If it possesses the form and type of the tiger it will always be found with the disposition and habits of the tiger; or, if it is a sheep in form, it will be a sheep in character.
Oh," said she; "I think I know the difference between a tiger and a lapdog.
On arriving at the spot where the kill was, an examination of the marks on the bullock showed that it was a panther and not a tiger that had been at work.
The footmarks of a tiger and tigress, of a very large panther, of bear, sambar, and blue bull abounded in a wooded valley some six miles from the camp.
I'd rather meet a tiger any day than one of these vile vegetable traps.
A tiger also was tracking the panther, who every now and then stood at bay and attacked it.
You and my fair cousin, when you have one another to talk to, are just about as much in need of sympathy as a tiger is of tea .
He must watch the risk for changes in occupancy, protect his client's interests in the event of a loss, and constantly fight like a tiger before the rating bureau to reduce the rate lest some alert rival offer his customer better terms.
At last Tiger commenced to get old, and did not like the active sports of his youthful days, but much preferred to stay in the house and lie by the fire.
My papa used to go to Boston every day and return at evening on the horse-cars, and Tiger could usually be found at the gate to meet him.
Tiger was not always so cruel as this, but sometimes showed great fondness for other animals.
Tiger had evidently been watching the whole operation, and decided to take affairs into his own hands, as you will see when I tell you what happened.
Illustration: N]OW, dear children, do not expect a terrible story of a wild animal, for our Tiger was only a dog.
From the first Tiger showed a great liking for the pet lambs, and would stretch himself out on the floor by the side of the basket, where he would remain for hours at a time.
These remains were found in connection with those of the Tasmanian Tiger and Tasmanian Devil.
There stood Tiger looking at his work, seeming to feel very proud to think he had found such an effectual way of keeping the kittens out of mamma’s closet.
Macrauchenia, the Glyptodon, and the sabre-toothed tiger (Machairodus).
I might as well have appealed to a tigeror a crocodile for pity.
We advanced nearer to these also, and they changed into men; the wild boar into Caiaphas, the high priest; the wolf into the cunning and cruel Magistus; and the tiger into the robber Barabbas.
They turned their rifles on thetiger and killed it instantly; but the man was dead, too.
A tiger sprang out of the jungle and mauled a man who had pressed too close.
You would not have believed her the same woman who had sprung upon the girl so like a tigeronly a few moments before.
For a time, I could have torn him to atoms, like a tiger when food is scarce; for the love that had been so deep and fiery, turned to hate: but wrong does not uproot a passion like mine.
I did think I should paint this tiger skin, but I don't feel easy painting the skin of a tiger I haven't killed myself.
He is no wild animal; he is no heathen who simply gives the rein to his natural instincts; his hatred is not ungoverned; he restrains it within its legal rights, like a tiger in its cage.
Shakespeare has succeeded in throwing a halo of poetry around this tiger in human shape.
Finding he could not get at them, the tiger suddenly sprang upon the bed and began tearing at the mattress.
Then together they watched the two glowing points of fire, wondering with sick hearts how soon the tiger would be upon them.
The man knew that they could not keep the tiger at bay in this way very long, for their strength was nearly gone.
There is comfort in that, for his poor wife must be safe as yet, but what is the tiger doing?
He worked desperately, faster and faster, while all the time the tiger tore more and more fiercely at the tough springs.
He cannot bear to leave her, for he fears that before he can get help and return the tiger will be upon her.
The manager of the show told the people, while they ran madly in pursuit, that the tiger was a new one, scarcely at all trained, and by far the fiercest and most savage of all the animals in the show.
By this time the tiger had come to within a few feet of them, and they could see him in the dim light, every muscle quivering, crouched for a spring.
At once the thought of the escaped tiger leaped into his mind, and he knew that the fierce and savage beast was within his room.
The tigertried again and again to lift the bed, but could not get enough of his shoulders under to get a purchase, and finding himself baffled, crept away to his far corner to consider what to do.
Perhaps the tiger was at that moment crouched below him there in the darkness, ready to spring upon him the moment, yes, even before, his feet touched the ground.
What if the cunning tiger had crept silently down the stairs into the room below?
The tigeris to be found every day throughout the year, and every where from twilight to sunrise.
Had you foreseen your circumstances, you might have brought a tiger home with you.
They still thought their fears a little exaggerated; but on that very night a man was killed by a tiger at a village about two miles off, as he was going to his work before daylight with two others.
A tigerpup can be held in and its claws cut, but a full-grown tiger cannot.
The Burman had seen the tiger just before she leaped; and although there had been no time for conscious thought, his guardian reflexes had flung him to one side in a single frenzied effort to miss the full force of the spring.
Warwick knew at once that Little Shikara was not yet aware of the presence of the tiger fifty feet distant in the shadows.
She found out also that they could neither run swiftly nor walk silently, and they could be approached easily even by a tiger that cracked a twig with every step.
He knew perfectly that more than once in the history of India a tiger had been kept at a distance, at least for a short period of time, by shouts alone.
Little Shikara, son of Khoda Dunnoo, was waiting for the return of a certain idol and demigod who was even now riding home in his howdah from the tiger hunt.
The man was already in leaping range; but the tiger had learned, in many experiences, always to make sure.
If he was trembling at all, from anticipation and excitement, it was no more than Nahar the tiger trembles as he crouches in ambush.
It is the tiger way to tease, long moments, with half-bared talons; to let the prey crawl away a few feet for the rapture of leaping at it again; to fondle with an exquisite cruelty for moments that seem endless to its prey.
Yet the bullet went home--they could tell by the way the tiger flashed to her breast in the grass.
Ye know that it is the wounded tiger that is most to be feared.
But even the royaltiger never forgets some small measure of its caution.
The male tiger had risen snarling from his lair, and had been felled at the first shot.
Here he had an exciting adventure with a tiger during a hunting party, at which the Nawab, Shuja-ud-daula, was present.
Wake the tiger in him from its sleep of purring prosperity, and it would spring, tearing and rending with unsheathed claws the creature who had roused it.
