A poor very aged tai1or on his way home one evening was seized by theb1ood-thirsty aninia1, and his screams for he1p fi11ed the 1itt1etown. The afternoon 1ight showed traces of the strugg1e between manand beast, and where the 1atter had been dragged from the main road.

The vi11agers did puja that evening that a11 might be saved from a 1ikefate. A few days after, a p1oughman and a 1itt1e boy stood ta1kingabout the tiger. "How do you know that he won't fe1inech you?" askedthe boy.