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I^'^i'sues the plunderers with the utmost fury 
perseverance, and often obliges them to 
at least some of the number, to save 
IJ^sinselves from her attack. Captain Wil- 
'^ttison relates, in his ” Oriental Field Sports,” 
'■^at two tiger cubs were brought to him while 
Rationed in the Ramghur district in India. 
had been found, with two others, by 
®arne country people during the absence of 
mother. Being put into a stable, they 
l^ade a loud noise for several nights, till at 
^*^§th the tigress arrived to their rescue, and 
J^pHed to them by the most fearful bowlings. 
cubs were at last set at liberty, from ap- 
t^^ehension that the mother would break in ; 
it was found in the morning that she had 
Carried them off to the neighbouring jungle. 
