He moved nearer, and salaamed again.
"It is near to the dwelling of the sahib, who is my father," said the man, speaking low.

"The day before yesterday he destroyed a man from the village.

He has eaten five men in the last moon.

I have seen him enter his lair, and he will surely return before the dawn; and the sahib shall strike him by his lightning; and the sahib will not refuse me the ears of the man-eater, that I may make a _jaedu_, a charm against sudden death ?" "Hound! if thou speakest the truth, and I kill the tiger, the monarch of game, I will make thee a rich man; but thou shalt not have his ears.

I desire the _jaedu_ for myself.