work; there is a minute division of the
proceeds of the public patronage among
industrious people in all ranks, giving to each a
living, and to very few more than enough.
Truly, then, we may pay our money for
amusement at the theatre with a sincere good
will, if we will only think of the results that
are obtained out of a little figuring upon the
stage.

CHIPS.

A TIGER'S JAWS.

GRICE (a man of the 26th, stationed here)
and I obtained two-and-a-half months' leave
on purpose to kill tigers, panthers, and bears.
Having made our preparations for the jungle,
we started on the nineteenth of March with
a fine band; consisting of one big drum, one
big bell, four small drums, and a pair of
pistols always loaded with coarse powder,
and being continually let off. The noise of
this concert was sufficient to frighten any
animals out of the jungle; and, when it was
not, we had also some twenty or thirty men
to set up a supplementary yell. I should like
you to have heard our band turning a
corner amongst the hills! Our battery
consisted of ten double guns—some rifles, the
others smooth-bored—and two brace of pistols.
We did not commence shooting until the
twentieth, when we began at about nine in
the morning; our plan being always to go
some half-a-mile before the beaters; and,
having placed ourselves in some likely spot,
to sit quietly, and (if possible) concealed, until
they had beaten up to us. Owing to rain, we
saw nothing until the twenty-second; when,
having walked some five miles, we perched
ourselves, guns and all, on a small tree, and
put the beaters in. We had been in the tree
about twenty minutes, when Grice whispered
to me, "Tiger!" I saw her almost at the
same moment: we fired four barrels, all of
which took effect. She charged with frightful
speed right under the tree in which we were
sitting, and was into the jungle in a moment.
Immediately after this, a peacock began
calling, a sure sign of a tiger being near; and,
sure enough, in another minute out came a
small cub about the size of a dog; this, Grice
shot. We then began the ticklish work of
"following up," generally done on elephants;
but, not being rich enough to sport them, we
were forced to go on foot. We traced our
prey about half a mile into the jungle, which
was so thick that one could not see more than
ten yards ahead. I separated some six or
seven yards from Grice, and was in the act
of looking down close to the ground, when I
heard a frightful roar; and, before I had time
literally to cock one barrel (I had imprudently
gone into the jungle with my piece on half-
cock), I felt myself jammed in the brute's
jaws. She carried me about ten yards. My
face, I believe, was touching her cheek, when
Grice, with the most wonderful presence of
mind, put two bullets into her ear. She
dropped, but still held me. Grice ran up,
and before she was actually dead, pulled me
out of her mouth.

I am told that there was not two inches of
space between my head and the spot where
the bullets hit. Had Grice's hand shaken,
I should probably have been shot through the
head, as he had a very small mark to fire at.
I was perfectly conscious when pulled out of
the brute's mouth.

The skin, of course, I keep as a trophy—
it is nearly twelve feet long. The accident
occurred fifty miles from camp; and if it had
not been for Grice, God knows how I
should ever have been taken back; but he is
well known by the natives; in fact they are
afraid of him (his nickname is "Tiger Grice,"),
and he told them they would be well paid if they
carried me to the next town, Jaat, about
twelve miles off. After some little arrangement,
they carried me on my bed to Jaat,
where Grice is almost worshipped, on account
of having last year killed a tigress which had
at different times killed twenty-four of the
villagers, and at the time Grice shot her, she
was in the act of eating an unfortunate woman.
Twenty-four men were sent out from camp
with a palanquin, to meet me. Grice rode
all night by my side, and accompanied me till
within two miles of camp, when he went back
again to go on with his sport. It is more than
a month since he has been heard of, but I
hope he is all right. I suffered great agony,
from the moment I was bitten. My mother was
always anxious about all her children's
constitutions; well, a very clever doctor told me
that if I had not had an iron constitution it
would have gone very hard with me. I am
perfectly convalescent, walk about, and go out
every evening in a kulkee; the wounds are
healing, but it is irritable to have one's arm
continually slung up. I should like very much
to send the skin to England, but it is very
large, and would be difficult to pack up; otherwise,
it would make a nice rug.

LLOYD'S LIST.

A CORRESPONDENT informs us that the
statement in the article on Underwriting,
in our number of the 4th inst., that the
oldest published Lloyd's List in existence
bears date 1745 and is in possession of the
Committee of Lloyd's, is incorrect;—that
gentleman possessing, he writes, a volume
for the year 1740, commencing with No.
560, dated Friday, January 2, 1740, and
concluding with No. 658, Friday, December
25, 1741, wanting one number to
complete the year. These all bear the following
heading: "This List, which was formerly
published once a week, will now continue to
be published every Tuesday and Friday, with
the addition of the Stocks, Course of Exchange,
&c. Subscriptions are taken in at three