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Show APOLOGIZING TO THE TIGER Raymond Blathwayt Tells of His Experiences Ex-periences While Connected With a Traveling Menagerie. In a hook of reminiscences, "Through Life and- Round the World," Raymond Blathwayt tells the following story In connection with a traveling menagerie he attached himself to while knocking about the West during his salad days. "One day Just after breakfast," he eays, "I peeped in at the messroom door. There was a full-grown tiger licking the jam and bacon off the plates. "'Oh. I hog your pardon!' I ejaculated, ejacu-lated, ns I hastily shut the door. A moment after I met Jack, the tiger's keeper. '"I can't find that other tiger nowhere,' no-where,' he said to me. 'I guess I've mislaid the old critter.' '"You have,' I icily replied, for I was a good deal annoyed with the danger I had so narrowly escaped. "You'll find him in the mpssroom licking the plates.' "'Thank you, mate,' he said. "An hour after I overheard the proprietor pro-prietor asking his little son if he had washed up the breakfast dishes. " 'Hadn't no need to, pop ; the tiger licked 'ein like he knew they wanted cleanln' !'." |