leopard. The royal tiger will not touch any thing but of its own killing: however, leopards, are not quite so fastidious, and may be allured by the scent of meat. I have heard this doubted; but the following fact, which occurred while the corps to which I then was attached was at Hazary-baug, in the Ram-ghur country, puts the matter out of doubt.

The serjeant-major of our battalion had killed an ox for his winter provision, and had hooked up the joints within his hut, which was on the right flank of the line, close to the grenadier bell of arms. The sentry stationed there gave the alarm that some large animal had entered the hut, in which there were several apartments. A light was brought, and numbers crowded to the place; but nothing could be seen for a while. All where about to retire, when it was discovered that a leopard was clinging to the thatch with his claws, just above where the meat was hanging. No sooner did the animal perceive he was discovered, than he quitted his hold, springing suddenly down and darting through the doorway, clawing several as he passed, and giving the poor sentry in particular a scratch down the face, which laid him up for some weeks. Many who escaped the leopard's paws were, however, sufferers by the bruises they received, in the general struggle to get out of the bungalow.

In some of the ditches surrounding forts in the Carnatic, alligators are purposely kept, and all pariah dogs found in the forts are thrown into the ditches as provision for the alligators. Some gentle

men who have kept tigers in cages adopted the same means of supply for their royal captives, putting the pariah in at an aperture in the cage, made for the purpose. Such persons as may have resided in India, will admit the propriety of thus disposing of a most troublesome breed of curs, most of which are unappropriated, and being numerous, are not only very troublesome to passengers, often biting them very wantonly, but making such a noise at night as sets all attempts to rest at defiance. Added to this, in so warm a climate, where so many dogs go mad, and where their bites produce the most deleterious effects very quickly, it is the best policy to reduce their numbers as closely as possible within the limits of real utility.

It has not always happened that the tiger has killed the pariah put into his cage. I know an instance of one that was thus devoted to destruction, and was expected to become the tiger's "daily bread," standing on the defence in a manner that completely astonished both the tiger and the spectators! He crept into a corner, and whenever the tiger approached, seized him by the lip, or the nose, making him roar most piteously! The tiger, however, impelled by appetite, for no other supply of any kind was given him for several days, would renew the attack. The result was ever the same. At length the tiger began to treat the dog with more deference, and allowed him not only to eat the mess of rice and meat furnished daily for his subsistence, but even refrained from any attempt to disturb his

rest! The two animals after some weeks became completely courteous, and each showed symptoms of attachment to his companion. But what must appear extraordinary was, that the dog, on being allowed free ingress and egress through the aperture, considered the cage as his home, always returning to it with confidence; and when the tiger died, moaned for want of his companion. He then became pensioner; and, for aught I know, may be yet alive.

REMONSTRANCE TO WINTER.

AH! why unfeeling Winter, why

Still flags thy torpid wing?
Fly, melancholy season, fly—
And yield the year to Spring.

Spring-the young cherubim of love,
An exile in disgrace→→

Flits o'er the scene like NOAH's dove,
Nor finds a resting place.

When on the mountain's azure peak

Alights her fairy form,

Cold blow the winds and dark and bleak,

Around her rolls the storm.

If to the valley she repair,

For shelter and defence,

Thy wrath pursues the mourner there,

And drives her weeping thence.

She seeks the brook the faithless brook,

Of her unmindful grown,

Feels the chill magic of thy look,
And lingers into stone.

She woos her embryo-flowers, in vain,
To rear their infant heads;
-Deaf to her voice, her flowers remain
Enchanted in their beds.

In vain she bids the trees expand
Their green luxuriant charms;
-Bare in the wilderness they stand,
And stretch their withering arms.

Her favourite birds, in feeble notes,
Lament thy long delay;

And strain their little stammering throats,
To charm thy rage away.

Ah! why, usurping Winter, why

Still flags thy frozen wing?

Fly, unrelenting tyrant, fly

And yield the year to Spring?

WINTER'S REPLY TO SPRING'S REMONSTRANCE.

PRITHEE have patience, gentle Spring!

Let me reign out my day—

To thee 'twould no advantage bring,

Should I now yield my sway.

Though rough my manners, to the Fair
No enemy am I:

My toils their ornaments prepare,
Their nourishment supply.

My blast, though terrible it seem,
Gives vigour to the bow'r;

My snow supplies th' exhausted stream,
Preserves the sleeping flow'r.

Bright health admits my useful claim, And exercise and sport,

To brace the summer-slacken'd frame, My cold assistance court.

Comus, Apollo, and the Nine,
Are my perpetual debtors-
For under my dark influence, shine
Mirth, music, and belles lettres.

The feather'd choir may think it hard
That I should check their song;
But who the warblers would regard
That pip'd the whole year long?

Then, pray take patience, gentle Spring! And bear with my delay;

On thee perhaps 'twould sorrow bring, Should I curtail my sway.