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panions both in sleep and play, expressing their fondness by 

 fawning or caressing. They are equally affectionate to their 

 own young (Watson, 'Percy Anecdotes'). 



The ideas man generally associates with the tiger are 

 ferocious courage, bloodthirstiness, untamability ; but, ac- 

 cording to Jamrach, the well-known wild animal dealer of 

 London, it is sometimes at least timid or easily frightened. 

 It can be tamed if taken young, and then forms harmless 

 companionships with dogs or other animals. When not 

 hungry it is ( frightened at the least noise/ An escaped 

 tiger in the streets of Calcutta, meeting a steam roller, be- 

 came at once so frightened that he ' turned short round, ran 

 back the same way, and finding the door of a house open, ran 

 in .... sprang over a table at which four people were 

 sitting at breakfast, out at the back door, and into the 

 kitchen, where he sat down in a corner,' from which he was 

 after a time decoyed by the bait of a live kid. 



Tiger cubs are sometimes in India brought up with other 

 young animals, especially the common Indian jackal, so as 

 not to attack them. Such cubs become pets on shipboard 

 and elsewhere, forming close companionships with other 

 animals, such as the dog. We are told of a tamed tiger, 

 that it played with everyone on board a certain ship, and 

 that it formed a great friendship for and with a dog. The 

 mature, wild, powerful tiger possesses and exhibits certain 

 moral qualities that are considered admirable when they 

 occur in man ; for instance, it shows a wonderful magna- 

 nimity sometimes in the case of an adversary that displays 

 pluck, spirit, courage, manifesting its respect or deference 

 not only by sparing its life when completely in its power, 

 but even by contracting an attachment for it, taking it 

 under its protection, and, in short, making a companion of 

 it. All this has been done by a tiger towards a dog that 

 stood up to it in the fight, to the tiger's obvious amaze- 

 ment, followed by its admiration (Watson, Wood). 



The tamability and tractability of the tiger are shown by 

 the fact that Indian fakirs travel about the country with 

 tame tigers, * which they simply lead with a slight string, 

 and which will allow themselves to be caressed by the hands 



