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donate than any cat. For some months it was kept 
in invalid quarters at the back of the house, and its 
loud “ purrs ” could be heard at the end of the passage 
the moment its keepers entered. It ran up and down 
its cage, rubbing against the bars, with its tail standing 
stiffly up, and delighted to have its head and ears 
rubbed and patted. Sutton, and the keepers more 
especially concerned with the Lion House, took all 
possible care of it, and after nursing it through an 
illness in which it lost all its fur, they succeeded in 
bringing it into condition to be shown. But the tiger 
soon became sick again, and after a long illness, in 
which it was kept alive mainly by the care and 
affection of the keepers, it died, much lamented. 
Tameness is by no means confined to the northern 
species of tiger. “ Jack,” an Indian tiger, which died 
in the same year as “ Warsaw,” was quite as friendly 
to its keepers, and surpassed him in beauty. For 
some time it shared with the Sokoto lion the place of 
honour as the finest creature in the Gardens. When 
it arrived, in 1888, as a five-months-old cub, it was 
led by a chain and collar like a big dog, and was for 
some time taken to and from its cage by the keepers 
with no other precaution, until its reluctance to be 
shut up when it preferred to walk at large, and the 
difficulty of “ coercing ” so large an animal, led to its 
permanent incarceration. “Jack” was the tiger which, 
in the experiments with different musical instruments 
subsequently described, displayed so marked an objec- 
tion to the sounds of the piccolo. 
