PROBABLY A RECORD 



its size, that it is probable the weights were wrong, or that 

 the scales, which had not been tested for some months, 

 were inaccurate. However, be this as it may, there was 

 certainly no mistake about the measurements, which, if 

 they did not actually constitute a record, could not have 

 been far short of it. 



Many " coolies " and others from the adjacent tea 

 garden and villages, had followed the procession to the 

 factory, amongst them several veterans, who, living on 

 the borders of the forest, had seen many a tiger in their 

 time, both alive and dead, and all agreed that this was by 

 far the largest they had ever seen or heard of. 



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