TIGER-HUNTS. 
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but Miss 'Winston said it was well authenti¬ 
cated. 
“ You know how a cat will often jump at 
her own image in a glass ; and a canary-bird 
will spend hours fluttering before a mirror 
and looking behind it to catch the seeming 
bird. 
“ The tigress is very fond of her young, 
and will run any risk in defence of them. 
They are quite blind and helpless when 
born, and of a dark-grayish colour, very 
obscurely striped. If taken very young, 
they are easily tamed and become quite 
docile and even fond of their keeper, 
though they can never be rendered so com¬ 
placent or so trustworthy as the lion; 
and you may have observed that the mena¬ 
gerie-people never venture to take the same 
liberties with them. The fakirs of India— 
who are religious beggars, something like 
the mendicant friars of Roman Catholic 
countries—are often accompanied by tame 
tigers, which they lead about by cords and 
which occupy at night the same lair with 
their master. To-be-sure, it now and then 
happens that a tiger eats up his reverend 
companion ; but to persons of their way 
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