13 Tiger Adventure
“It rhymes with power and it rhymes with sour.
Both words describe him well. He had more power than any other member of the wild ox family. And he was as sour as vinegar, grumpy, crusty, cranky, cross and savage.
He stood seven feet high, his two upturned horns were each three feet long, his ears were large, his food was grass, bamboo shoots, twigs and leaves of various trees and bushes.
A headman told the boys, ‘When the gaur is attacked it will pick up a stone in its nose and blow it out with ...a force great enough to kill a man.’ The boys took this with a grain of salt, but they were ready to believe that the gaur was a very bad customer.
‘If he gets you on his horns.’ said the headman, ‘he will carry you for miles, no matter how heavy you are - then he will shake you off and may stamp you to death.’ But Dad had ordered a gaur, and a gaur he should have. How could two boys capture such a formidable beast?
‘We’re apt to find him anywhere between here and six thousand feet up the mountain.’ Hal said.MoreLess
Both words describe him well. He had more power than any other member of the wild ox family. And he was as sour as vinegar, grumpy, crusty, cranky, cross and savage.
He stood seven feet high, his two upturned horns were each three feet long, his ears were large, his food was grass, bamboo shoots, twigs and leaves of various trees and bushes.
A headman told the boys, ‘When the gaur is attacked it will pick up a stone in its nose and blow it out with ...a force great enough to kill a man.’ The boys took this with a grain of salt, but they were ready to believe that the gaur was a very bad customer.
‘If he gets you on his horns.’ said the headman, ‘he will carry you for miles, no matter how heavy you are - then he will shake you off and may stamp you to death.’ But Dad had ordered a gaur, and a gaur he should have. How could two boys capture such a formidable beast?
‘We’re apt to find him anywhere between here and six thousand feet up the mountain.’ Hal said.MoreLess
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