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Cub of Tiger : An Animal Story
Let us enjoy reading this animal story of Cub of Tiger .
A magician was demonstrating his tricks at a country fair, on an open-air stage. He got loud applause when he took out a rabbit from his hat.
Unknown to the magician and the spectators, a tiger was watching the show from behind some bushes, nearby. Later that night, the tiger waylaid the magician as he was going home.
“I saw you pull a rabbit out of your hat,” he said. “Pull out a cub for me!”
“The rabbit was in the bag all the time,” blurted the magician, trembling from head to toe.
“I cannot create animals out of thin air!”
“Produce a tiger cub if you know what’s good for you!” snarled the beast.
“All right, all right!” said the magician, thinking fast. “But it’ll take some time, a month at least.”
“I can wait!”
“There’s another thing,” said the magician, a plan forming in his mind. “You’ll have to stay on a diet of milk and rice during the entire period!”
“Milk and rice!”
“Otherwise the trick will not work.”
“All right,” said the tiger, finally. “I’ll live on milk and rice.”
He went away and returned a month later.
“Now let me have the cub,” he said, in a barely audible voice, his diet having made him extremely weak.
The magician called the whole village to witness the magic trick.
“This is a special show for our guest here,” he announced. “So instead of pulling out a rabbit from my hat I’ll pull out a young member of his family.”
He muttered some mumbo-jumbo, passed his hands over the hat several times, and then with a loud cry plunged his hand into the hat and pulled out a small cuddly animal.
“A kitten!” guffawed the spectators.
The kitten meowed.
The tiger was not amused. He let out a mighty roar, or at least he had intended to roar but in his weakened state the sound that emerged from his mouth was a loud
“MEEEEE-OOOWWW!”
The villagers rocked with laughter. The tiger felt so ashamed that he leapt out of his seat and ran away, and was never seen again.
This animal story of Cub of Tiger was sent to us by Mr. Arumugam, India.
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