Archive image from page 207 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 I went on meditatively- 170 DIARY OF A SPORTSMAN NATURALIST ' It was before I enlisted, sahib, before I left my native village—I have scarcely been near the place since—that I first met a tiger face to face on foot ; and this was the fiercest and most devihsh of all the beasts of my own country of Nepal.' ' Well, havildah, let me have the story. It was in the rains, was it not ? ' -' How fine the jungles must look now with the tall bright green grass still
Archive image from page 207 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 I went on meditatively- 170 DIARY OF A SPORTSMAN NATURALIST ' It was before I enlisted, sahib, before I left my native village—I have scarcely been near the place since—that I first met a tiger face to face on foot ; and this was the fiercest and most devihsh of all the beasts of my own country of Nepal.' ' Well, havildah, let me have the story. It was in the rains, was it not ? ' -' How fine the jungles must look now with the tall bright green grass still growing up- wards, and the flower-heads just beginning to swell out. One could not see to shoot much now in the grass jungles, not even from the back of an elephant ? What a happy time the animals must have, with plenty to eat and drink everywhere, no long journeys to make to search for succulent grass and water-pools, as they have to make in the hot weather.' ' Yet there is danger from other animals, sahib. The tiger and leopard are just as dangerous, and can ap- proach without a sound when the wind is blowing through the grass stems and the rain is pattering and swishing down. It was during a break in the rains in this month that the man-eater I am telling you about visited our village.' ' But you have not begun the story yet, havildah,' I said, wishing to keep the old man to the point and get this yarn out of him if possible. ' Huzur, I will commence.' ' It was long years ago now, and I was sixteen years of age at the time. I was not thinking of 'listing then. My father owned a good house and several fields and a consider- able number of cows and goats. He was a big man in the village. I was his eldest son, and already I took a consider- able share of the work in the fields. But my chief pleasure was hunting. Like you, sahib, from my early youth I was very keen on shooting animals, and was a firm friend of our village shikari, an old man who had shot every kind of animal
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