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vertical bars. The leopard on being turned into the 
den at once made a violent spring towards the light, 
and pitching head-foremost against the netting screen, 
bulged it out to the exact contour of its face. It 
never seems to occur to these creatures that they 
could easily gnaw their way through the wooden 
sides of their temporary prisons and escape, like the 
hyena which recently maintained itself for a week in 
the hold of a large cargo steamer, and was kept in a 
good temper by joints of prime New Zealand mutton, 
until on the unloading of the vessel the hyena was 
captured in the congenial cavern in which it had 
taken up its residence. 
The well-known escape of the tiger which the 
elder Mr. Jamrach recaptured in the street, was partly 
due to the weakness of a cage. An Indian tiger 
had been brought up from the docks, and was about 
to be transferred to a larger den in the “ stables.” 
This animal showed more judgment than most of its 
kind, for it used its back in the fashion of a lever, and 
burst the rear of the cage. It then trotted down 
the narrow passage, and into the main street, then 
known by its old name of RatclifFe Highway. The 
only person who waited its approach was a little boy 
of eight years old, who had put out his hand to touch 
it. The tiger patted him with his paw, and of course 
the child fell on the pavement, though the blow was 
so gently given that the child was stunned but not 
injured. The tiger then picked him up by the loose 
part of his jacket, and was trotting off with him, 
