They hear of bootlegging and blind tigers among certain foreign groups.

He didn't condescend to answer a word, looking for all the world like a tiger in savageness.

Resolutions were offered that Congressman MORRISEY be pulverized, by some talented femail startin' a opposition club house, employin' none but Tigers of the gentle sects.

The distant howls of roaming beasts of prey entirely deprived the holy man of his rest, but nothing worse befell him, and when in the morning the small boy, instead of providing the tiger with a breakfast, was heard crying for his own, the besiegers mustered up courage to enter the cavern.

The tiger on the left of the arch alone abides in its place; the other lies on the ground at the threshold of the gate.

He is describing a walk over a battlefield on the Ancre after one of our victories there last November: "It is a curious thing to walk over enemy trenches that I have watched like a tiger for weeks and weeks.

" The packet was received calmly, though the organ which glanced at its seal and its superscription, gleamed with an expression which the credulous gondolier fancied to resemble that of the tiger at the sight of blood.

The natives consider the death of a tiger cause for general rejoicing, and forming a triumphal procession amid a turmoil such as only Indian beaters can make, they carried the dead tiger to camp.

While cutting grass in the jungle, with a blanket on his back, the day being rainy, he had been attacked by a tiger from the rear.

He wished to visit a neighbouring Saheb; and though his servants had warned him that tigers had been frequently seen on that particular road, he had laughed at their fears and told them that the only tiger to be feared was a "man-eater", and that there were no "man-eating" tigers about that district.

I have heard a story about a little brat named Sambo who made some tigers into butter.

"A sunflower seems to me to be more like a tiger than anything else.

With simple Indian swains, that I may hunt The boar and tiger through savannahs wild, Through fragrant deserts and through citron groves? There fed on dates and herbs, would I despise The far-fetched cates of luxury, and hoards Of narrow-hearted avarice; nor heed The distant din of the tumultuous world.

This put the elephant into a horrible funk, and despite all the efforts of the driver he started off at a trot, hauling the tiger after him.

Since that year it would be as well to make acquaintance with a tiger as with him.

The Raja retorted "What is a tiger without a tail?

We fed the monkeys with buns, watched the loathly little snakes crawl among the grass in their cages, and then G. began gratuitously to insult a large fierce tiger by poking at it with her sunshade.

The Tiger beneath the skin.

One day a party of the Purneah Club were out; they had shot two fine tigers out of several that had been seen; the others were known to have gone ahead into some jungle surrounded by water, and easy to beat.

If I'm not mistook, this young gentleman was paid a hundred dollars this afternoon for his bravery in throwing a royal Bengal tiger over his shoulder and bringing him back to the circus, from which erstwhile the animal strayed.

Strange to say, everything looked as if there was no tiger within a score of miles.

You've got to a place where you can rake in the dust all day, and dance all night, and go buckin' the tiger between whiles.

Wallah!" was the young Pasha's reply, and he struck the Tiger across the face with his pipe.

Everybody remembers Baron Grimm's story of the Parisian showman, who in 1789 exhibited the royal Bengal tiger under the new character of national, as more in harmony with the changed order of things.

A line of beaters, with tom-toms, drums, fireworks, and other means for creating a din, are then sent into the jungle, to beat the tigers up to the platform on which you sit and wait.