from Fearful Symmetry

Muzzle and jowl and beastly brow, bilious glaring eyes, tufted ears, recidivous criminality in the slouch, —This is not the latest absconding bankrupt but a ‘beautiful’ tiger imported at great expense from Kuala Lumpur. 7 photographers, 4 black-and-white artists and an R.A. are taking his profitable likeness; 28 reporters and an essayist are writing him up. Sundry ladies think he is a darling especially at mealtimes, observing that a firm near the docks advertises replicas fullgrown on approval for easy cash payments. ♂Felis Tigris (Straits Settlements) (Bobo) takes exercise up and down his cage before feeding in a stench of excrements of great cats indifferent to beauty or brutality. He is said to have eaten several persons but of course you can never be quite sure of these things.