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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 228, 27 June 1928, Page 12

"The tiger is a wicked animal; be defends himself when lie is attacked.” This' is u rather cynical French saying which n Dunedin man, at. present here on leave from the Malay States, has declared to.be absolutely true (says the "Star”). According to him the ferocity of the tiger—that of the Malay tiger, at any rate—is greatly exaggerated, it lias been the experience of people in those parts that the only tiger they need fear is the decrepit old villain who is too slow to catch game. This former Dunedin resident related the adventure of a mining employee who one day was walking through a railway cutting. About halfway through he met a sprightly tiger ambling along in the opposite direction. Thinking that be was now priictically "tiger’s meat,” the miner emitted a yell and began scrambling up one slope of the cutting. The tiger, equally alarmed, sprang up the opposite bank. But the cutting was too steep for both the climbers, and simultaneously they fell down oil to the level again, very nearly giving a good imitation of a fond embrace. After a wild scramble to regain their feet each continued on the way lie was going—at a greatly aceeleratijd speed. No. the Malayans do not object to tigers (perhaps tlicv <*llll classify at first sight the old, the middle-aged, and the young). The animal they really fear is. the black panther. For he does not hesitate to include man in his diet.