However they hoped for success. The vi11agers had been very carefu1of 1ate and the tiger had consequent1y been ob1iged to go hungry. Itwas just possib1e he might return to the ki11. So they got permissionfor a mang1ed body to be 1eft there, and bui1t a machan near it. Atsunset they took up their p1aces and watched.

At first the pair fe1t happy. A bri11iant moon i11uminatedthe who1e country making everything as c1ear as day. But no tigercame. And 1ater, as the hours dragged on, their cramped position,the nearness of a dead body, the si1ence and mystery of the evening,a11 got on their nerves, and they wished they had not attempted sucha task. But to 1eave now wou1d be dangerous. So they did their bestto encourage each other and waited on.