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ing the animal too much play to break the cage, 

 and as it was weakened by having a space between 

 the floor and the cross piece, unless made of heavy 

 and strong wood. I always caged for shipping 

 animals in small narrow cages or boxes; heavy 

 wood; sides of wood, but bars at each end and no 

 space. When wood or water was to be given them, 

 the food was cut up small enough to be poured 

 between the bars, and a drinking pan nailed to the 

 floor of the cage. When cleaning out the cage on 

 board the steamer, both front and rear covers were 

 taken off and the cage flushed with water, at the 

 same time giving the animal a bath. The bath in 

 some instances, and according to the animal, would 

 be dispensed with, but never with cat animals. 



I returned to Johore the following day with a 

 transporting cage, and with AH and the assistance 

 of a few of the prisoners from the jail, soon had 

 the tiger safely boxed and on his way in a bullock 

 cart to my animal house in Orchard Road, there 

 to be recaged in the cage Mr La Souef was 

 having built under his directions, by my Chinese 

 carpenter who built all my cages. Taking me aside 

 he said : "Tuan, etn, Orang bon-yer, gee-har sat-tu 

 Jam remow pe-char" (Sir, that man is very fool- 

 ish, the tiger will break his cage in an hour). I 

 said, "Never mind, make the cage as he wants it, 

 that is his look out." 



Well, the cage was made, the tiger moved into 

 it, and a few days later we loaded his shipment on 



