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back. His heels came with crushing force 

 against the tiger's jaw, and in a moment he was 

 sprawling helplessly on the ground, stretched on 

 his back. He soon, however, crawled away, 

 evidently with no intention of renewing the 

 fight, for his jaw was broken, and he gladly 

 retreated into his cage as soon as the door was 

 opened. 



The same king had two enormous and fierce 

 tigers, which he proposed to fight one against 

 the other. Having been kept without food for 

 two days, their cages were brought into an 

 enclosed yard, and the doors opened. Out they 

 bounded. One of them was called Ragra, the 

 other Terai. They advanced towards each other 

 step by step. At last Ragra made a sudden, 

 rapid, and impetuous spring, for which Terai 

 was not unprepared, for he jumped on one side, 

 and immediately his claws were fixed firmly in 

 the neck of his adversary, while his jaws were 

 grasping his throat. Ragra, however, made a 

 violent spring and freed himself, although his 

 neck and shoulders bore bloody traces of the 

 injury he had received. He now made another 

 attack, and each succeeded in gripping his 

 antagonist. With their mouths buried in each 



