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 fiock 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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