THE TIGER. 
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Bramins, and not a feature of theirs was 
^^ftened : but horror and sorrow were alter- 
nately painted in the face of the female, and, 
her clasping her child more closely to 
breast, I guessed the subject of the old 
'^ottian’s story. On inquiry I found that I 
right in my conjecture. She was widowed 
childless ; she owed both her misfortunes to 
tigers of that jungle, and most probably to 
J^ose which then lay dead before her ; for 
it was believed, had recently carried off 
husband and her two sons, grown up to 
^^iihood, and now she wanted food. In the 
^^I’enzy of her grief, she ultimately described 
loss to the crowd, and in a wild scream 
^inanded her husband and her children from 
® tigers. It was indeed a piteous spec- 
tacle.” 
"Algers are very frequent in China, though 
^ populous a country that we should have 
^ticeived it impossible for them to have re- 
t'OL. II. K 
