A poor aged tailor on his way home one evening was seized by theblood-thirsty aninial, and his screams for help filled the littletown. The afternoon light showed traces of the struggle between manand beast, and where the latter had been dragged from the main road.

The villagers did puja that evening that all might be saved from a likefate. A few days after, a ploughman and a little boy stood talkingabout the tiger. "How do you know that he won't felinech you?" askedthe boy.