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 a dead pause, uncertain whether to advance or flee. Puss sprung towards him, when strange to tell, the dog actually wheeled round and scampered off to his masters as fast as possible, pursued by her ladyship in a menacing attitude for upwards of 150 yards. It is believed that the hare having young was actuated to this boldness by the affection she bore for her offspring.

By a part of the Sunderbunds, called Athara Baki, of very thick jungle, but through which a creek runs, a boat was passing lately, when the crew observed a large tiger come to the water's edge to drink; an aligator on the bank seized hold of him, but the tiger resisted, and a contest ensued which lasted for two hours, each seizing and grapling with the other, and the tiger alarming the whole forest with his roar. At last the aligator succeeded in dragging the tiger into the water, which then became alarmed, and letting go his hold of the aligator, the latter seemed glad to be released, and the tiger made off.

The following story, the truth of which we can vouch for, is not only curious in itself, but convinces pretty forcibly that whimsicality and