S and se    like ive kisses, and eimes Emma toucly ed lips. Lizzie ook cly folded it up on its fingers and gave o her.

        "Gratuity,"    in    and nipped raig t and, after a moments t, stumped off after till, secret edges of to .

        But ion to t even ely fat    for ays, but for black cotton stogs ers tes on t for a majestic    of black leg, but ly and Lizzie scuttled unseen after, casting an inquisitive back ed    smad sank down on hing unseen moaned.

        tall as Lizzie tle drummer-boy, somersaulted -- ly across ttering to    time to see t, alt se rigo o    then he was gone.

        Dont te frightens easily.

        t tent, not triped tent, but a, ent; it    up inside like a    and glo last o unfasten and    inside.    so muctempt to close up after o be in as great a umbling d as soon as s here.

        Feet of ers    , ent    s see o see , mixed ter around range cries t did not e from s, so s track.

        S could be seen: a young couple, arm in arm, icks     doeps of size, a man, a o a baby of ierminate sex in t, but took at of.

        ten all time, a r as if teeth.

        S skirts and trousers and scratcil sanding beside t brotaircase family at t of t still s see tiger, even if sood on tiptoe, sed a    any clotside only    t and stogs, and some foliage, ars. taircase family     and respectable-looking, altire family possessed t pale, peculiar look ceristic of tives. training upwards.

        " Veux-tu voir le grand c, ma petite?"

        Lizzie did not uand    as her son heaved Lizzie up in his arms food look.

        "Les poux. . ." s her son paid her no heed.

        "Voilà, ma petite!"

        tiger    an    t burned. It burned ss tail, tc tip. tride of tiger; its eyes like yellos round, i, toy-like ears; tiff    ificial look; t noise came. It rareh bloody bones.

        tiger kept its ing    of old. All its motion    s back, if it il it rolled over to ts ense muscles keened and sang. It    reacself in one liquid motion; notiful ts    ed nerves. Upon its pelt it bore t of t lived.

        t igo, but    stop ctle fingers and ried but    dislodge tiger stopped in its track s mysterious patrol and looked at    eyes of Neered , mineral eyes of tiger.

        It seemed to Lizzie t time, tiger and herself.

        trange e beast fell to     tle c lead it to eat meat. But only "as if". All    k. A crackle of sent; tiger ing out of cer.

        Its mind remained, o itself. e did not kno hinking. how could we?

        It stopped r. Instead it started to emit a rattling purr. time somersaulted. Space diminiso ttractive force betiger. All t existed in tiger.

        t came t by t tell you iger, nor    it     forced it to e to s knees, like a pe. It dragged its pale belly across ty straotle soft creature s    follois ceaselessly tcail.

        ts nose and it buzzed and rumbled and took t idea .

        t scared and pummelled tle fists, but s let go a grip as tig of the newborn.

        Crack! the spell broke.

        to the ring.

        A lasigers ivorous o t did not ool. s, a brig frogged all . A dervised ool, leaped and t ballet of mimic ferocity, taming of tiger, to wamer gave no co fig all.

        t cat unpeeled its eyes off Lizzies in a trice, rose up on its ed at ts at a piece of paper dangled from a string. It batted at tamer s enormous pa tio fuse, irritate and torment it and, ing, ted baying of t, ual , a lifetimes training, tiger o an obscure er of tage, to cower, ws flanks ure of ion.

        Lizzie let go of tains and all, to ector for fort. So ts by ttack of trainer upon tiger and s he surface.

        tamer gave emptuous ripple around    made it sink its ed foot on tigers skull and cleared    for speeciger    even more so, because he was a man.

        "Ladies alemen, boys and girls, tiger kno alive-oo Boston from its native ju t mont time, no my imperious and, offers you a perfect imitation of docility and obedience. But do not let te deceive you. Brute it e it remains. Not for not receive t of Sce for, in its native at, it t nots breakfast and follo;

        A pleasing sihe crowd.

        "tiger," and t ingly ;is table ination of blood lust and fury; in a single instant, it    turn from furry quiesto th-dealing fury.

        "tiger is ts revenge."

        O meepost as Lizzie passed by; ment!

        to a fidential e, suc beall, alted suc mastery, not a single person i would    he had been drinking.

        " is ture of t and Ma me tell you. It is fear. Fear! Not fear. Do you knos?    long, every nigers, impossible to close our eyes for brooding on    tal beast rike?

        "Dont t bleed, or t t    of scars, scar upon scar. I o be once more broken open. No skin of mi is not scar tissue. And I am alime in t -- t, boys and girls, ladies alemen, you see before you a man in tal fear.

        "error of my life.

        "At t I am in t deatrap."

        trical pause.

        "But," and igers nose ock, so t it , "but. . ."    and Lizzie sa frog    rousers s a little, ". . . but Im not e as it is of me!"

        he showed his red maw in a laugh.

        "For I bring to bear upon its killer instinct a rational mans knoool, are instruments of bluff e s, I abliss you migop dog, because I kno all time t to kill me, t is t, t is tention. . . but as for t dont kno;

        As if enced by tion,    loud again, but by noiger, pered blo a clear and introvertible message of disaffe and, s sculptured    a, caugoppled over. And tiger illness, of lines, but a whe air. On him.

        tely bayed.

        But tamer, ances,    uny py, bounced backool    o tigers jaiger roying tc tamer leaped, unscat hurrahs.

        Lizzies stunned little face tled all over    of tent, e.

        to see t of tupendous cat act, to buy anoticket for top, besides ticket for t ant on to do t, in spite of t soon got bored ciger splintering tool, and drifted off.

        "Eite," said o , singsong, ing voice. "tu as vu la bête! La bête du cauc;

        t    peacefully t noo stir and mumble. Its moth her elbow.

        "On va, Papa?"

        t    pink lips dled furiously ao be put do,    out of    and silence; ent    oer in all Fall River.

        "ell, if it aint Ale girl!    are ttle Lizzie Borden?"
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