Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — A Tiger's Charge. [ARTICLE]

A Tiger's Charge.

A writer In the Bombay Gazette describes the rare experience of seeing the charge of a famous man eating tiger which ended harmlessly. “A camel with a slipping load had,” the writer says, “been halted not far from his lair, when with a ‘wroulT (once heard never to be forgotten) the tiger charged for the man leading the camel. The tiger, I have no doubt, would have carried off the camel man, but when he saw the long, and to him unfamiliar, neck of a camel coming between him and bis intended victim I dare say he thought things were not quite as he had calculated. Anyway, he paused, casually surveyed the whole party and, with tail erect, calmly walked back into the Jungle. The camel man was either so frightened or the whole thing from beginning to end had occupied so short a time (less than a minute, I should Judge) that he did not stir from the place where he was when the tiger first made his attack.”