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f^i’own alive into her cage ; when, after play- 
awhile with her victim, as a cat does with 
^ ^ouse, her eyes would begin to glisten, and 
tail to vibrate, which were the immediate 
^^’^ecursors of death to the devoted prisoner, 
'^liich was invariably seized by the back of the 
the incisions of the sanguinary beast 
^'^'^etrating the jugular arteries, while she 
'^ould traverse the cage, which she lashed 
her tail, and suck the blood of her prey, 
hung suspended from her mouth. One 
a puppy, not at all distinguishable in 
!^hpearance from the common herd, was thrown 
Immediately on perceiving his situation, 
. set up a dismal yell, and attacked the 
|.^Sress with great fury, snapping at her nose, 
*■001 which he drew some blood. The tigress 
appeared to be amused with the puny rage of 
puppy, and, with as good-humoured an 
®^pression of countenance as so ferocious an 
^^ittial could be supposed to assume, she 
