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TIGER-HUNTS. 
animal finds it any thing but amusing. The 
ordinary track of a tiger being ascertained, 
the country-people collect a great quantity 
of large leaves, and, after smearing them with 
a kind of birdlime, made of the crushed ber¬ 
ries of an Indian tree, they strew them in 
abundance, with the sticky side uppermost, 
near the shady spots where the tiger is 
wont to resort. W oe to him if he treads upon 
any of these treacherous leaves ! He begins 
by shaking his paw to remove the annoy¬ 
ance, and, not succeeding in that way, he 
rubs it against his head, by means of which 
his eyes and ears become covered. After a 
while the tiger begins to roll among the 
sticky leaves, and to howl in the extremity 
of his distress; and this brings the peasants to 
the place, who find no difficulty in destroying 
him. The tiger has also been taken in a 
box-trap with a looking-glass on the inside. 
The deluded animal attacks his own image, 
supposing it to be another tiger, and thus 
disengages the cover, which falls and takes 
him prisoner.” 
Daisy and Sidney both laughed at the idea 
of catching a tiger by means of his own pic¬ 
ture. Richard seemed inclined to doubt it; 
