RIDING WITH A TIGRESS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4565, 6 November 1875, Page 1 (Supplement)

RIDING WITH A TIGRESS.

A tramp who was attempting to steal a ride from Ogdensburg to House's Point, experienced a trip which was well calculated to make an impression on his memory that will not soon be eradicated. It appears that a splendid pair of tigers and zebra which formed a part of the hippodrome menagerie which has spent most of the summer here were shipped that night for New York via House's Point. The tigers were removed from their cage, placed in temporary boxes, and put in a box car. The door of the car was partly open to allow a free circulation of air. The tramp, in looking for a good place to stow himself away, came across this open car and crawled in. After the train started the tigers became uneasy from the rumbling of the cars, having remained in a quiet state here for two months, and tried to get out of their boxes. The tigress succeeded, and as she emerged from her coop the tramp sank back into the corner, and remaiued the rest of the trip as rigid as a statue. The tigress, after making an examination at the ear, in which she even lapped the face of the tramp, laid down at the open door, with her paws hanging out, the rest of the journey. In the morning when Herr Lingal come to look after his pets he discovered the tigress occupying the same position, and ordered her back into the box, and she obeyed. He then discovered the tramp, who still occupied his crouching position, with his clothes wet through with sweat, and speechless from his all-night ride with the tigers. It was a fortunate thing for the tramp that it was the female that got out of the box, for she is as kind and tractable as a kitten, while the male would have made tiger meat of him before reaching the end of the journey.