A Tiger fat Large.
■ Liverpool has a good local story of a ■tiger, which escaped fiom a menagerie and ■terrified, the suburbs for some hours. In one outlying district a man who had Plost tho use of both legs had sat for |>20 years a sturdy, stunted vagrant, making Pa good thing cut of his infirmity. But in Kan evil hour for his professional profits, Rthe road where he had taken up his seat Kfor a score of years was, on the morning Pof the tiger's escape, the scene of a fierce I stampede. Down it poured pell-mell men, fe women, and children at full speed, screaming with terror and. crying out, "The tiger! the tiger I" - v The cripple, had heard the news of the and now fear lent him legs or ►'restored his old limbs. He started up, 'threw away the big bowl on which he had £sat doubled up every day, and with an which left nothing to be desired, "bounded down the road, and coon outstripped all competitors. The tiger was - caught, but the "cripple" was never seen f again—-at least not in that quarter.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 91
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189A Tiger fat Large. Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 91
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