LIONS AND TIGERS 



darkness. An alarm was soon given, and all hands, 

 keepers, helpers, grooms, and musicians, summoned to 

 receive instructions from their able and energetic director. 

 It was some time before his gracious majesty was dis- 

 covered ; the first information received of his whereabouts 

 was at break of day, when he was seen on a common near 

 by, slowly following a flock of tame geese, and soon 

 afterwards he appeared in full form, with head erect, look- 

 ing majestically grand, and carrying in his mouth a fine 

 full-grown goose, his having which was a very fortunate 

 incident, as it enabled the keepers to approach him, upon 

 seeing whom he squatted down determined to retain his 

 prize. The keepers taking advantage of this circumstance 

 secured and, by skilful management, conveyed him in 

 safety to another and a stronger den, " probably a wiser 

 and a sadder lion." 



TIGER IN BOW STREET POLICE COURT AS HUMAN 

 REMAINS. 



During my residence in Little Russell Street, Covent 

 Garden, I received a dead, full-grown tiger, from a 

 menagerie. Being anxious to preserve the skeleton as 

 well as the skin, I had the whole of the flesh carefully 

 removed from the bones, leaving the vertebrae and ribs in 

 their entirety. I then had this portion (the skeleton) of 

 the tiger conveyed to the top of the house, and, in order to 

 secure it, it was made fast by a cord to the chimney-stack. 

 It had been there some time, during which the cord must 

 have perished, because one stormy night this skeleton was 

 blown from the roof into the street below. The next 

 morning, to my great astonishment, I found that my 

 presence was required at Bow Street Police Station, on 

 the supposition that some horrid crime had been com- 



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