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Our Little Hindu Cousin

Chapter 7 CHOLA GOES ON A TIGER HUNT

Word Count: 4562    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

d the little Sahib go off in the fire-carriage. "I will go and buy some sweetmeats," he

g in the ox-wagon, thought Chola, as they rushed through town after town and watched the trees fly past. Finally they stopped at the village

p things on top of the two big elephants, as they exp

ing along through the tangled grass. He was so excited that he cou

idden, were full of tales of a great man-eating tiger that was the terror of the region, and who was in

, the tiger had sprung on a farmer who was ploughing his fields and carried him off in sight of the whole village.

but nothing more was discovered; and, as it w

ilt a big fire. They did not want a tiger to pay them a sur

ld steal up behind us now," confided Harry to Ch

or the charm which hung about his neck. He always wore a charm, but this was

Still, if one does believe in charms, now is the time to

ngers; and there were queer noises, and the firelight twisted up the

ser to the fire. But it was fun, although they felt more creepy still when the beaters began to tell stories of wonderful hunts in which

eath and pretending to be dead. A leopard will not touch a dead person or animal. Another time he had seen the queer little "Todas," a race of people who l

orest he had been caught in the huge coils of a terrible boa-constrictor, one of those great snakes that can crush an ox by winding themselves about it in great coils, or can

long gray beard, as he sat by the fire chewing hi

him. Instead of putting the sugar into the elephant's mouth, Harry accidentally dropped it on the ground. This made the elephant still more angry; and, as Harry stooped to pick up the sugar, he lifted his great foot and would have crushed the boy, who did not dream

giving a peculiar cry, rubbed his trunk against Chola, just as the Colonel Sahib and every one came ru

ow the Colonel Sahib thanked him; and the

HE JUNGLE, THERE SPRAN

ild animals talk with him as with a friend," said the

were a bit of a coward when we were talking in your uncle's garden; but I know now you are much

udging along through the underwood until finally it was seen that the grass had been crushed down in places, a sign that the tiger himself could not be far away. The elephants began to show signs of fear, as they always do when a tiger is about, and the beaters divided their forces, some of them going around one

the elephant's feet, as a bullet from the

, in great excitement. When he was measured, the old beater said that it was one

but they came upon no more tigers; so the party tu

the English folk go when it gets too hot for them to stay in the plains and in the big cities. There the boys would have som

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