out to be a large tiger which came into view suddenly, and quite close, as may be supposed from the fact that the planter was sitting in long grass.  The tiger at once crouched, and the planter was afraid to raise his gun, as it was probable that the animal might spring at him before he was ready to fire.  Tiger and man thus looked at each other in silence.  Mr. B. had heard of the effect of the human eye, and he threw into his the fiercest glare he could, but found that the tiger returned his glance quite unmoved.  Then he thought he would try the effect of the human voice, and gathering himself together uttered the most awe-inspiring yell he could command.  The tiger at once rose to his legs and turned his body half round.  This was encouraging, and he emitted another yell, when the tiger went off.

There can be no doubt that tigers, like men, are often very undecided how to act, and it would be interesting if we could penetrate their state of mind.  Shall I attack, or shall I do nothing? and in the end, after long deliberation, the tiger will determine on doing nothing, and walk off.  Of his state of mind the following is an instance.  On one occasion I left my pony on the side of a hill just outside the forest, and went for a stalk over the mountain above.  I could see nothing, and thought it would be well to take a seat and wait in case any game might turn up.  I had not been seated more than a few minutes when one of my people, pointing downward, said, “There is a tiger,” and we could see him at the foot of the hill about quarter of a mile away, walking steadily across a piece of open land to the forest beyond.  Just as he disappeared my horse-keeper came up alone, and evidently in a most agitated state, and no wonder, for we had no sooner got out of his sight when, a tiger appeared from the jungle and lay down on the ground just above the pony and crouched.  The horse-keeper had another man with him, but he not unnaturally said that he was afraid to come and tell us, as he thought that there was safety in numbers, and that the tiger might attack the pony if it was left with only one man.  The tiger must have thus remained in a state of low doubt for at least half an hour.  Finally he got up and left them, and, from the direction he took, was evidently the identical tiger which we had seen from the hill top.

Tigers, like wolves and other animals, form plans, communicate them to their companions, and conjointly carry them out.  A friend of mine was once the subject of an excellent instance of this.  He was out stalking one day, and with his glass was scanning the country carefully, when he made out a long way off, in a piece of open grassland which was surrounded by forest, three tigers looking in his direction.  They evidently saw that there was something on the hillside, but the distance was, for them, too great to make out what.  After steadily looking at him some time the tigers evidently formed their plan of operations, and plunged into the forest towards him.  The tigers had taken my friend and his man for game of some kind, and had determined on a united stalk and drive, and, when they appeared, two remained at the edge of the jungle, while the third made a circuit evidently with the view of coming upon the supposed game from above.  But presently they discovered their mistake and went off.