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Now, if the revolt has broken out, they will be as merciless as tigers." "It looks as if they intended to make us a visit, doctor?" "Alas! there can be no earthly doubt of it." "Let us hurry into the jungle," said Mary, her face paling with fear. "We have not a minute to waste." "The advice is good, but before acting on it I should like to make an experiment."
One night a tiger had tried to kill a calf that had wandered from its mother's side. Muztagh lifted his trunk high and charged down with great, driving strides four tons and over of majestic wrath. The tiger leaped to meet him, but the elephant was ready. He had met tigers before. He avoided the terrible stroke of outstretched claws, and his tusks lashed to one side as the tiger was in midspring.
"We have amongst us younglings who have taught tigers humility; we have amongst us younglings who have broken hillocks with their fury, and pulled down the thickest trees of the jungle. So thou, man lover, temper thy speech to humility; it is not meet for thee to seek a bride amongst the free-born." Kari snorted and said, "Give forth the challenge, I accept."
"I should rader der boor home of a goot-hearted mann dot haf mourned Bons, dan der Duileries mit men dot haf ein tiger face.... I haf chust left tigers in Bons' house; dey vill eat up everydings " "Come with me, sir, and you shall see. But well, anyhow, there is a garret. Let us see what Mme. Topinard says."
"If I should go into the house and throw my child out of the window, it would roll way down to the bottom of the hill; and then if there were a lot of tigers and bears down there, they would tear my darling babe to pieces and eat it up!" "Are there any tigers and bears in this neighborhood?" the Wizard asked. "I've never heard of any," admitted the woman, "but if there were "
As soon as Daisy saw the tigers she stopped short, and uttering a shriek like a railway whistle she fell flat on the ground. 'Fear not, gentle Indian maid, Oswald cried, thinking with surprise that perhaps after all she did know how to play, 'I myself will protect thee. And he sprang forward with the native bow and arrows out of uncle's study. The gentle Indian maiden did not move.
Sometimes the train runs through thick jungles, amid which Popof assures me tigers are numerous. Numerous they may be, but I have not seen one. And yet in default of redskins we might get some excitement out of tiger-skins. What a heading for a newspaper, and what a stroke of luck for a journalist!
I have imbibed the rude cruelty of savages my jealousy is filled with the storms and fire of the equator. What do you pale effeminate young men know of jealousy? Is not your professor of jealousy the actor who dashes about on the stage with a paste-board sword? I have studied the monster under other masters; tigers have taught me how to manage this passion.
None had been seen here before, and it caused no little excitement and alarm, for the European settlers imagined that these poor, timid, bashful bears were as dangerous as man-eating lions and tigers, and that they would pursue any human being that came in their way.
"By the regulations of the Company," replied Von Stroom, falling back in his chair with an important air, and crossing his thin legs, "you are required to receive on board strange and curious animals, sent home by the governors and factors to be presented to crowned heads, such as lions, tigers, elephants, and other productions of the East; but in no instance is it permitted to the commanders of chartered ships to receive on board, on their own account, animals of any description, which must be considered under the offence of private trading."
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