Short summary of what I remember .... it has been a while!
Book1 – Tales from Indian Jungle
Chapter1: Ghooming at the dawn
It’s mostly about the sunrise and the experience of sitting
through the jungle for a night, it tells us the beauty of the nature and the
natural justice which prevails in the jungles (by the way of panther killing
the fawn and its baby)
Chapter2: The bellandur ogre
Cattle thief tiger had a special liking for milch cows but
idiot village people try to catch it using a pit. They try to spear the beast
with a puny trishula but tiger turns the tide by leaping outside the pit, one
poor guy loses his entire scalp due to unintentional scrap – he takes 3 days to
die. Now the ogre is hurt, more careful of human beings and tiger extends its
operation to other areas. Enter the scene Mr. Johnson, and Buddiah the
necromancer. Confrontation between the two results in unsuccessful hunt and a
hurt tiger. Only a matter of time the ogre became of man-eater, hence the
dreadful story begins. Enter Mr. Jock he somehow convinces buddiah to help him
and the village people too. Somebody gets killed and Stanley (the local doctor)
along with Jock goes in search of the remains, there they find Mr. Ogre who is
unwilling to go away from the kill. This leads to a trick situation in which
they are forced to shoot at each other while tiger in the middle of it,
fortunately none of the three get hurt. Waiting again in a pit for the orge to
return will only confirm the fact that there are more tigers and then the same
night another women would be killed in her hut dragged half out. Both Stanley
and Jock position together near the hut and jock in the hut but ultimately both
of them kill the tigers who had become man-eaters.
Chapter3: The aristocrat of amigiola
Its about a killing of tiger called Dorey..because it used
to bask in sun in broad daylight with no fear, but I don’t agree with KDS that
this is any coward. Hunting is stealth game not one of cowardice.
Chatper4:
Book2 – Man-eaters and jungle killers
Book3 – The call of the man-eater
