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THE TIGER. 
able by the numerous tigers which infested i*' 
This evil has of late years been greatly 1®®®^ 
ened, in consequence of the premiums 
by the East India Company for the extirpati<^^ 
of those mischievous animals, and which 
the year 1802 amounted to £15,000 sterling- 
The tiger is reported to use sometimes 
small degree of artifice for securing his pr^/’ 
Dr. Fryer mentions a curious stratagem etf' 
ployed by him for catching monkeys. 
woodmen, says he, assert that, at the ap' 
pioach of a tiger, the monkeys give warnii*^ 
by their confused chattering, and immediate!/ 
betake themselves to the smallest and hig!*' 
est branches of the trees. The tiger, seeing 
them out of his reach, and sensible of thei^ 
fright, lies couching under the tree and the” 
falls a roaring. They tremble, let go tfaeh 
hold, and tumble down, on which he pieh® 
them up and satisfies his hunger. The accH' 
lacy of this account was confirmed to IVf”' 
