The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-18
A neal Live Animal story.

once upon a time an exceedingly striped
and hungry Tiger roaWed through the canons
Il Manhattan and the u.ighhorIng wild-,
s?ringing suddenly on Anything and every
thing IN sight and getting away With 1t to
beet the band.
Tho casual ohssrver might suppose that
the voracious beast would have got a super
ruous suriciency after an almost uuiut"r-
fupt~d season Of ciuch on the Common - enlth.
and would have gone ~ somewhere 10 sleep
While IL dige.t"i - gorge, but this wasn't
that Mind # a Tiger. not by 10 means On
tho contrary. tho more he grabbed the longer
grew ht, claws Such was his rspaclpus
appetite aud hts capaclous NAV that not
| content With what was m sight. he levied
trihut" On dishonest people and put additional
taxes ou tho honest ones. until the problem
Of living In Manhattan became to be 50 s"ri-
ously intricate that some moved out rather
than CIV. up everything they had III you
do not sre what YOU want. ask for H.. WAS
tho Tigers motto and he worked Il TO the
limit
When he was confronted upon this condl-
ton II affairs 10y those who had courage 10
beard him In hts den. he bristlcd up his back
and blew out his tail TIL 1t looked like a huge
lAmp chimney cleaner. aud Informed the
meddlers that he was all right all right.
see' and was doing tho fair thing. because
70 .he former he was anordins a much needed
protection. and to thu latter he was supply
ING ths beet governed city on earth
Tho delegation Of decency. which had
visited the Tiger many. many times with
no better success than has been mentioned.
was composed Of the moot reputable per
sons for miles and miles around. quii" re-
gardlcss Of age. sex or previous political
condition. snd when after repeated efforts
20 effect a compromise they found that the
Tiger was not built that waN, they resolved
unanimously that the uulN method g. bnns
Ill., g WNMA ~ - ~ O. him with "a nm
They thereuPon otgaIixcd o. hunting party
u take the place - any other party 10 which
they may have belonged, ana securing the
services - the % q J. elephant, a very
large animal ~ great strength To- som" locali-
toe. and ot undouht"f courage almost any
where. they mounted th"if chief hunters
upon u and set forth on the quest Tor the hide
Of the deNastatur
Th. Tiger. with almost human reason,
when they got started. and not csring 70
| tackle the whole shooting match he struck
for the tall timber but the hunters hustled
up their elephant and pursued the Tiser 50
closely and with such success that Ia a very
short time they had him pushed into . corner
\ tiger - not an animal, that II nghtlcss,
however. sneHkinc may be- is manner ~
capturing ~ prey. OF IN s%kulkins on when
caught IN the act and trying u hidc, and
this specimen was not unlik" t. kind. There
fore. as the hunters approached. u lashed
H. auiveting sides with IT, long and vibrant
tsil. aud showed IT, claws. and showed up
| the hair on IT. spine. and yeowed ana spit
and tore holes In the earth. hut the elephant
Knew Ills NA lHfNN alNA nv kfIN HNNlLA Us
hunting party a little closer until they we're
ready Tor tho final scrap Thus squeezed
T. the wall the Tiger. with q tremendous
spiEzle and splitting that fairly walked the
echoes aud made the welkin ring. launched
itself through the atmospher. and III Ola the
elephant with all it, feet aud them a-Clawin'
What might have happened 20 the elephant
under ordiuary circumstances a. a result
Il this violent aud ill-adviscd onslaught -
a matter 81 speculation. but What did happen
will be- u matter Of history shortly after the
nT-t 81 November IN the year 81 grace. 1871
The hunters Oh the back ut %" elephant
were expecting Just such an advance 81 the
that b" had Jumped out 81 u" frying-pIn
into tho FIRE. aud the Ere was hot. very de-
cid"dly,. dArned hot, for the hunters Inn
m~iiately trained their entire battery 81
upid transit guns on him and everybody
let So at once The effect vas disastrous
10 thr Tiger, not Ia say pyrutcchuio IA the
extreme, both extremes. fuT dat matter.
the great and sudden chsnge that lad taken
taken plac, risht under his very nose. a. one
might stv Some 81 the Boosters Ia tho hunt
INC PARTY had said they would kil the Tiger
too dead to skin. but after "a" smoke had
cleared away some Of an iupuirlng turn Il
that tho hunters had fll~l his beautiful
stripped skin full Of holes -n tull, indeed,
that they took a on and sold u later a. a
good profit a. q New Jersey hotel man Who
used Il Tor mosquito netting
Thus ended the touch and the tyranny
Of the Tiger. and when ~ vas known among
tho people that their ancient enemy had
been wiped "A the face ~ to earth. there
Was great telolCing. and Law Hnd btdrf
once more went abroad tu IN" land without
fear ~ being sluggrd Jon the neck
MILAN j L.MrroS