Some strange stories of kidnapping girls are told us by the natives. Some of these reflect great discredit on the officials who ought to suppress the practice, and none of them add anything to the good name the Model Settlement." Some time since, so the account goes, a tiger not far west of Chinkiang was engaged in carrying off little children. But as they were all girls and as it was at night, he was not for the time being disturbed. At length, however, he became bolder and in daylight came and snatched away a little victim. The matter was reported and some men with guns went in pursuit.. They succeed ed in cornering the tiger and were about shoot him when to the astonishment of his pursuers the tiger stood up on his hind legs and called out '*don't shoot." The tiger was only a man clothed in the skin of the beast who was engaged in kidnapping the poor little waifs for the Shanghai market! One is disposed to think their lot would have been a happier one had they fallen victims to the teeth of a real tiger.
13th May.
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