Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1904 — Giving Medicine to a Sick Tiger. [ARTICLE]

Giving Medicine to a Sick Tiger.

In a certain zoo is a very beautiful tiger, said to be the largest one in captivity. But If he would only move about as if be felt at home, and not be so dignified, we should be better pleased with him. Yet the poor creature is excusable, because he has dyspepsia, and bis sufferings make him cross. One day the keeper decided to administer a dose of medicine, so with the bottle and a whip he climbed to the top of the cage. Was that tiger cross? You would have thought so if you had seen him throw back bis great head and snap at the whip. The keeper, after enraging him, poured a little medicine down the lash, which he gradually withdrew, until in its place there was a tiny medicinal stream, at which the tiger kept biting and snapping, too much surprised, it seemed, to distinguish between whip and liquid. When he turned away his head, the medicine was poured over his paws, and when he had licked them clean that day’s treatment was completed.—St. Nicholas.