Evening star., 1897-03-20

paw across the narrow space between the
two cages. but instead of putting it over
inside the doorway of the other cage he
put 1t against the first bar on the side of
the 6oor and pushed on it. and pushed the
cage away a little bit. That was bad We
ought to have made the cages fast to-
sether. but we hadn't We tried to start
him along a little faster. but instead of
going through into the other cage he kept
pushirg on that bar, pushing the other
cage away.
further out of the old cage. but not into
the new one. The man top of the old
cage tried to shut that door down then so
as, as to o., pin the tiger in it and hold
door jamnied when he first tried it, and he
couldn't bulge 1t, and all the time the tiger
was pushing the cage little bit
further away and getting further out him
self The man cn top of the new cage was
stid holding his deor open. hoping that the
tiger would sep across into the new cage
yet. and then he would drop it down and
hold MIN; but the tiger kept pushing the
cage away till there was easy ROOM and
then he just dropped down to the floor
and walked ro md the end of the new cage
out into the arena.
g Look out" says the man on top of the
cage. and we did and left the tiger boss
or the show, while We made arrangements
TO recapture him. and the tiger started in
to take a look around on his own account
There wasn't anybody to get in his way:
he had the whole place all to himself and
he waved his tail and glared around and
started. and kept going till he came to the
monkey cage. That seemed to interest
him more than anything else and he made
his first stop there, and stood waving his
tai and giaring at the monkeys. He
scared the little monks almost to death,
just standing there looking at them. and
they rushed over to the back of the cage
and hattened themselves against it, trying
TO get away as far as they could
w hen the tiger pushed his cage away
his paw was against bar on one side of
the door. nearer one end of the cage than
the other and so it that end of the
cage that he pushed out; the other end
stayed in by the old cage; 1t made kind
Of a V-shaped opening between the cages,
and the tiger had jumped down into that
and gone around the end of the cage that
vas pushed out. This V-shaped space
made kind of shelter. too. when the tiger
was around on the other side as he was
when he was looking into the monkey
cage and one of the keepers hurried in
with about a quarter of beef and threw it
into the old cage and pushed ii over as far
as he could into one corner
THE tiger smelled the meat I suppose
10 mad been thinking about how he would
one at mouthful. and there were Just
about enough in that cage to make a
square meal for him, but the bars were in
the way. and he knew what the smell of
the beef meant. and he turned away and
made for his old cage again; walked across
the open space waving his tail. and walked
around the end of the pushed-out cage into
the little triangular space and jumped up
into the old cage and made for the meat
IN the corner, and a man jumped up on the
roof and jammed down the gate.
We'll. you see. there didn't anything
very desperate happen. after all. Still, 1t
was about as much tiger as we wanted for
one day"