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antelopes, hunting-leopards, &c., sunning them- 

 selves in this park, either in their cages or on 

 the grass. I must tell you that the king had a 

 favourite tiger amongst these animals. It was 

 an unusually large and beautiful one, and I am 

 going to relate an anecdote of it which I think 

 will interest yon. 



There happened to be a horse at Lncknow so 

 savage that I question whether Mr. Rarey him- 

 self could have tamed him. When he got loose 

 he killed several persons, and was called the 

 man-killer. The king heard of him, and deter- 

 mined to have a fight between the horse and his 



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favourite tiger. Accordingly, a large enclosed 

 place was made and the horse brought into it, 

 and shortly afterwards the tiger in his cage 

 followed: the door of it was opened, and the 

 tiger bounded into the yard, lashing his sides 

 with his long tail and glaring furiously upon 

 the horse. He had been kept without food or 

 drink for a whole day, in order to make him 

 more savage. He began to pace stealthily 

 round the court-yard, while the horse in the 

 centre of it turned as the tiger turned. At 

 length the tiger bounded with the rapidity of 

 lightning upon his enemy, but the horse was 



