r G. Nicol, the bookseller to the king, with whom he was very
intimate, "have you got any money in your pocket?" Mr N. replied in the
affirmative. "Have you got five guineas? Because, if you have, and will
lend it me, you shall go halves."--"Halves in what?" inquired his
friend.--"Why, halves in a magnificent tiger, which is now dying in
Castle Street." Mr Nicol lent the money, and Hunter purchased the tiger.

TIGERS.

Mrs Colin Mackenzie[137] records the death of a man from the wounds of a
tiger. "The tiger," she says, "was brought in on the second day. He died
from the wound he had received. I gave the body to the Dhers in our
service, who ate it. The claws and whiskers are greatly prized by the
natives as charms. The latter are supposed to give the possessor a
certain malignant power over his enemies, for which reason I always
take possession of them to prevent our people getting them. The tiger is
very commonly worshipped all over India. The women often prostrate
themselves before a dead tiger, when sportsmen are bringing it home in
triumph; and in a village, near Nagpur, Mr Hislop found a number of rude
images, almost like four-legged stools, which, on inquiry, proved to be
meant for tigers, who were worshipped as the tutelary deities of the
place. I believe a fresh image is added for every tiger that is slain."

LION AND TIGER.

A jolly jack-tar, having strayed into Atkin's show at Bartholomew Fair,
to have a look at the wild beasts, was much struck with the sight of a
lion and a tiger in the same den. "Why, Jack," said he to a messmate,
who was chewing a quid in silent amazement, "I shouldn't wonder if next
year they were to carry about _a sailor and a marine living peaceably
together_!"--"Ay," said his married companion, "_or a man and
wife_."[138]

We may add that we have long regarded it as a vile calumny to two
animals to say of a man and wife who quarrel, that they live "a cat and
dog life." No two animals are better agreed when kept together. Each
knows his own place and keeps it. Hence they live at peace--speaking
"generally," as "Mr Artemus Ward" would say of "such an observation."

ANDROCLES AND THE LION.

Addison,[139] in the 139th _Guardian_, has given us the story of
Androcles and the Lion. He prefaces it by saying that he has no regard
"to what AEsop has said upon the subject, whom," says he, "I look upon to
have been a republican, by the unworthy treatment which he often gives
to the