THE SKINNING AND CASTING OF A TIGER 121 



to represent the bones, and afterwards superimposing clay for 

 the final modelling is quite as good, the body and skull being 

 covered with wood-fibre or tow and clay in like manner. 



The skin, which, in all processes involving a " mannikin," 

 must be split from the throat to the tail and up the insides 

 of the limbs, and indeed treated in every respect as explained 

 at p. 123, is now put on over the model, and sewn up, 

 improvements being, made by putting in or subtracting clay as 

 the sewing progresses. The final modelling of the head may 

 be executed by any of the methods described hereafter. 



The setting-up of mammals by mannikins of wood, tow, or 

 wood-fibre ("excelsior"), has been superseded in the Leicester 

 Museum, for the last ten years, by the following process, which 

 depends for its fulfilment upon the exact reproduction of the 

 subject, and which, apparently unknown, is here published for 

 the first time : — 



DIVISION III 



CASTING FROM THE ACTUAL SUBJECTS, AND THEIR 

 REPRODUCTION IN PAPER 



The Skinning and Setting-up of a Tiger 



Some time in November, 1885, a magnificent tiger, known 

 as "Tippoo Sahib," was killed by his companion in Messrs. 

 Bostock and Wombwell's menagerie at Norwich. So valuable 

 was " Tippoo " — who, by the way, was amiable enough, or so 

 well trained, as to permit the redoubtable Captain Cardono to 

 put his head into his mouth — that his market value was ;^400, 

 as "a real, live, performing, double-striped Bengal Tiger." 

 Unhappily, this paragon amongst tigers was, in an unguarded 

 moment, seized by the throat by a more ferocious but less 

 costly animal, who, jealous, no doubt, of the paragon's 

 surpassing merits, in less time than it takes to tell it, succeeded 



