Identifier: allaboutanimalsf00newy (find matches)
Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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O g 3 O THE TIGER. The Tiger hunt is the royal sport of India, because it is attended withgreater danger than any other kind of hunting in the world. Books could befilled with stories of the tigers ferocity and recklessness, its wild charges uponelephants and horses of the hunting-party and its violent struggles to get away,once it has been cornered by its foes. There is an old saying which runs : You are never sure of a tiger until he is dead, and not always then. Thestriped skin of the tiger is of great use to him as a protection, just as much asthe brown fur of the lion helps it to hide among the sand-hills and rocks.The tiger haunts the thickest jungle, and its brilliant yellow and black stripedskin harmonizes splendidly with the reeds and grasses in the fierce lights andshadows of the Indian day. Much is written of the man-eating tiger by people who do not realize thatit is only the lame or aged beast, unable any longer to pull down a buck,that attacks man. When the tiger has onc

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