which required stillness.  I also was fully prepared to remain quite still, and arranged myself so as to fire at the tiger when he was exactly in front of me.  It was interesting to observe what followed.  The tiger was evidently an old hand.  He had anticipated our plan, and charged back through the beaters, as we have seen.  He had also evidently anticipated the alterations we should probably make, and when the beat recommenced he cautiously emerged from the jungle and looked up (it is a rare thing for a tiger to do this) into the tree near the edge of the jungle into which I had tried to climb.  He seemed then to be quite satisfied that all danger was at an end, and strolled leisurely towards us.  As he was passing the point which put the whole bush between me and him, I cautiously levelled my rifle, which I already had in almost exact position to fire, so that when he came into my full view I had the sight on the second stripe behind the shoulder.  By a curious coincidence he stood quite still when he came into my full view, and, as he was only about twenty yards away, presented a very fine sight.  But I reserved my fire till he had moved forward a pace or two, and then I fired, and on he bounded.  Then followed one of those picturesque, exciting, and somewhat amusing scenes, which can only occur in tiger shooting on foot.  For the leisurely proceedings of the tiger had given the beaters time to get to the end of the cover just as I was firing at the tiger, and as I ran round the hillside to the other side of a ravine which ran down the hill, they ran forward so rapidly and plunged so suddenly into the jungle, that the tiger came out just below me.  I fired at him, and so did one or two of the natives who had run up to join me, and the tiger fell dead in the air in the middle of a long bound.  But running and excitement are not favourable to accuracy of aim, and the tiger, on this occasion, was struck by only one ball, and, strange to say, in the sole of the foot, and the only bullet-mark on his body was from my first shot at him.  My account of the incident may be valuable to an inexperienced sportsman, and illustrates also the peculiar disadvantage of sitting on the ground, because if the tiger had walked straight up to me, and I had fired at him in the face, which I should have been obliged to do, he would, if not killed outright, probably have either gone back amongst the beaters, or charged me.

I have alluded to my second gun-carrier on this occasion as being a man who had the greatest power of remaining still under all circumstances, out shooting, when it was necessary to do so, and I may also mention that he was a man who combined the greatest coolness with the greatest daring.  He was of a Hindoo peasant family, entered my service as a workman, rose to be a duffadar or overseer, and for many years has been head overseer on my coffee estates, and he is as good as a planter as he is as a shikari.  I could give many instances of his cool daring.  On one occasion