THE TIGER. 
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easily daunted by any sudden opposition 
human beings. Some ladies and gentle- 
being on a party of pleasure, under the 
&de of a clump of trees, on the bank of a 
I’'"®!' in Bengal, observed a tiger preparing 
fatal spring. One of the ladies, from 
® impulse of the moment, laid hold of an 
’^*^i>i-ella, and furled it full in the face of the 
which, intimidated by the unusual 
'^^nomenon, immediately retired. 
tiger of immense size had destroyed so 
persons in the neighbourhood of Chan- 
Qr 
^fiiagore that the whole population was sum- 
out to deliver the country from his de- 
^ ^dations. A detachment of troops also was 
^'’^ered by the governor to go in quest of the 
'^lister, which was discovered lying appa- 
I asleep. A volley was fired ; the animal 
.5^ motionless, and was conceived to be dead. 
6 Sergeant went up to look at his victim, 
the tiger raised his paw, struck his talons 
