Many of us were introduced to limericks with this verse: There was a young lady of Riga, Who rode with a smile on a tiger. They returned from the ride With the lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger. Those of us who studied literature and even those of us who did not are probably familiar with William Blake's poem The Tyger : Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Will H. Drake, logo and illustrations for Kipling's story " Tiger! Tiger! ". St. Nicholas Magazine , February 1894 . (Public Domain) We find mentions of tiger all over arts and literature. Ruskin Bond's stories from the jungles are incomplete without a prowling tiger. Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book features a tiger Sher Khan as the ultimate villain with malice in its heart. Short Stories such as Mrs Packeltide's Tiger trivialize the killing of the magnificent beast to induce a l
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