ide to the bars, and, ignominiously,
through the bars were hauled his four legs, his chiefest weapons of
offence after his terribly fanged jaws.

And then a puny man-creature, Mulcachy himself, dared openly and brazenly
to enter the cage and approach him. He sprang to be at him, or, rather,
strove so to spring, but was withstrained by his four legs through the
bars which he could not draw back and get under him. And Mulcachy knelt
beside him, dared kneel beside him, and helped the fifth noose over his
head and round his neck. Then his head was drawn to the bars as
helplessly as his legs had been drawn through. Next, Mulcachy laid hands
on him, on his head, on his ears, on his very nose within an inch of his
fangs; and he could do nothing but snarl and roar and pant for breath as
the noose shut off his breathing.

Quivering, not with fear but with rage, Ben Bolt perforce endured the
buckling around his throat of a thick, broad collar of leather to which
was attached a very stout and a very long trailing rope. After that,
when Mulcachy had left the cage, one by one the five nooses were artfully
manipulated off his legs and his neck. Again, after this prodigious
indignity, he was free--within his cage. He went up into the air. With
returning breath he roared his rage. He struck at the trailing rope that
offended his nerves, clawed at the trap of the collar that encased his
neck, fell, rolled over, offended his body-nerves more and more by
entangling contacts with the rope, and for half an hour exhausted himself
in the futile battle with the inanimate thing. Thus tigers are broken.

At the last, wearied, even with sensations of sickness from the nervous
strain put upon himself by his own anger, he lay down in the middle of
the floor, lashing his tail, hating with his eyes, and accepting the
clinging thing about his neck which he had learned he could not get rid
of.

To his amazement, if such a thing be possible in the mental processes of
a tiger, the rear door to his cage was thrown open and left open. He
regarded the aperture with belligerent suspicion. No one and no
threatening danger appeared in the doorway. But his suspicion grew.
Always, among these man-animals, occurred what he did not know and could
not comprehend. His preference was to remain where he was, but from
behind, through the bars of the cage, came shouts and yells, the lash of
whips, and the painful thrusts of the long iron forks. Draggin