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With a Tiger and a Ttyjah"

Nothing, anywhere, could of course quite measure up to the enchant-
ent of those blissful days in the Kashmir Valley under the unusual cir-
umstances that surrounded our stay there. The weeks that followed,
snt in some of the Native States in India, were certainly not without
eir own touches of interest and enjoyment, however—particularly
the repeated contacts I had with Indian royalty. I n Gwalior, for
xample, I was visiting the palace of the Maharajah when the Maharajah
Baroda, who was a guest there and who is one of the wealthiest native
lers in India, brought in a huge tiger, still warm, killed barely an hour
fore in a nearby jungle. I had my picture taken with it, and with the
aharajah's brother—at his suggestion! A few days later, in Jaipur,
ue simply to a chance word as I was being shown through the royal
ables, the head elephant of the Maharajah of Jaipur, a huge 11-foot-
gh beast, came to my hotel, resplendent in gold trappings and embroid-
ies and jingly bells, and with a gorgeously attired attendant, to take
e for a thrilling ride! At Udaipur, still later, I stopped on the street one
y to admire an extraordinarily beautiful horse, and the outcome of a
ief conversation with its handsome rider, who appeared at that moment

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d who proved to be one of the high nobles from the Maharajah's
urt, was that for all of my stay in Udaipur I had at my disposal a
unning coal-black stallion belonging to Udaipur's Crown Prince!

L daipur was a wonderful place, anyway. I t is by far the handsomest
the cities in Northern India, and one of the few built with any imagina-
». It has several beautiful lakes, from one of which the Maharajah's
lace rises sheerly with gleaming massive white walls and towers to
minate the entire neighborhood. I t makes a fairy-like picture at any
ie, but under the full moonlight for which I had the luck to be in Udai-
r, it w a s beautiful beyond words. I was the only guest at Udaipur's

hotel, and slept out of doors every night, waking rather more than
eping however, in order to look from my bed over the moon-flooded
y and the shining white palace that crowned it. On one of these moon-