WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
mitted, and that the skeleton, which had fallen from the 
roof of my house into the street, was that of some human 
being and had been conveyed to the nearest police 
station. It turned out to be my tiger skeleton, but I 
found it necessary to have the bones of the head, legs 
and tail carried to the station in order to enable the 
surgeon, who had been sent for to examine the portions 
of the skeleton, to certify that they were not “ human 
remains.” 
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