...no unmitigated evil in the land. His pursuit affords excitement and recreation to many a hard-worked official whose life, except for an occasional day...uses. May the day be far distant when the tiger shall becomepractically extinct ! THE GAME-KILLER. The game-killer confines himself entirely to thick forests,...

...themselves matters affecting the districts of which they have charge when visiting out-of-the-way places for sport, which they would never learn otherwise....when the tiger shall become practically extinct!" Mr. Best states that tigers, except the rare man-eaters, and if left alone, are no more dangerous than...

...the opinion of that well-known writer, GP Sanderson: . The tiger is no unmitigated evil in the land. It is a pity to see the tiger proscribed and hunted...slay every man-eater by all means possible and at any ex pense; but ordinary tigers are exceedingly inoffensive and have their uses. May the day be far distant...

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...One of these was Sanderson, who urged that 'The tiger is no unmitigated evil in the land,' lamenting 'It is a pity to see the tiger proscribed and hunted...unsportsmanlike method that can be devised, in response to unpopular outcries — chiefly in England — widiout foundation in fact, about his destructiveness'....

...and the two remaining chapters recalling specific hunts. Though Sanderson informs his readers that "it is a pity to see the tiger proscribed and hunted to death by every unsportsmanlike method [ie, any method other than shooting] that can be devised" (Sanderson, p. 269), he nonetheless outlines...