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Show KEPT OFF BILL COLLECTORS. H Major's Pet Was Both Ornamental i B, and Useful. bEstSSV Mr Smith soys In his recently pub- jBj llsheil hook. "Snakes and hyenas aro H strange puts lint strangest of nil Is a H full-grown tiger and such n put had J Major Mansell-Pleyilell It used to bo BJ chained up JiiHt in front of tho door of J his bungalow. Tho major had a metre H od of running up bills with local H tradesmen, hut there was great uilli- H cult) in netting payment, as none of jH tho bill collectors was venturesome M enough to cross tho guardian at tho H door. It was a great joko of the H major's when asked to pay his bill J to reply: 'Have you scr,. your bill? Jj Your man has never p'eacnted It at HJ my house.' Brutus, us the tiger was SB named, seemed to Unow what was re- fl iiuired of him., When chained boforo fl his master's door he would lie with H his head between his foropaws and HO watch the gate. If a stranger entered HJ ha would Jlft his head and brcatha HJ honvlly, and this was enough to tO scare, the most venturesome of bill HJ collectors." |