I am a juggler, and we are on our way down the country through Cawnpore and Allahabad.

Had it not been for the valor of my lord sahib, we should never have got there; for had I lost my Rabda, the light of my heart, I should have gone no further, but should have waited for the tiger to take me also." "There was no particular valor about it," Bathurst said shortly.

"I saw the beast with its foot on your daughter, and dismounted to beat it off just as if it had been a dog, without thinking whether there was any danger in it or not.

Men do it with savage beasts in menageries every day.

They are cowardly brutes after all, and can't stand the lash.