The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . MISSFIRE !(Drawn by E. C. Caldwell, pom a sketch supplied by Sir Gerard.) i°4 THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. subversive of sport. A few yards of thin rope anda small saw, and a man should be able to post him-self anywhere without further assistance andwithout noise, and go on from beat to beat tillsunset it need be. Two or three tubs is what one generally seeswith a tigress in a wild state ; occasionally I have m e t withfour, oncew i t h five,and on oneoccasionwith si inthe CentralProvincesprofess toage
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . MISSFIRE !(Drawn by E. C. Caldwell, pom a sketch supplied by Sir Gerard.) i°4 THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. subversive of sport. A few yards of thin rope anda small saw, and a man should be able to post him-self anywhere without further assistance andwithout noise, and go on from beat to beat tillsunset it need be. Two or three tubs is what one generally seeswith a tigress in a wild state ; occasionally I have m e t withfour, oncew i t h five,and on oneoccasionwith si inthe CentralProvincesprofess toage them bythe numberof lobes in. ON THE PARA.(Drawn by E. C. Caldwell, from a sketch supplied by Sir Montagu Gerard.) the liver, of which seventeen is the most I eversaw, but tigers undoubtedly live to over jo ; in-deed, I have heard cases where one was known inthe same locality for the latter period. As to themuch discussed question of length, out of con-siderably more than 200 1 have seen killed,fi feet i inch was the longest, and o feet 2 inchesto 9 feet 6 inches from nose to tip of tail is theaverage length of a full-grown male tiger, whoshould girth 50 inches to 54 inches, and 36 inchesto 38 inches from heel to wither. I never suc-ceeded in getting one weighed, but 450 His. I haveheard quoted as an extreme weight. Sanderson,for the South of India where they run smaller, gives2; stone. The heaviest i ever saw was killed in71, in Central India, and he was 9 feet 6 inches, ofwhich the tail was 2 feet 6 inches. He girthed60 inches—my diary says 6 feet, presumably a mistake—12 inches between the ears, and 24 inch
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