You'd look a bit apprehensive if you had a tiger onboard! This from our delightful friend Basil Hall:
"On a signal given by the Rajah, a folding door was thrown open on one side of the court and in stalked two immense royal tigers, held by several men on each side by long but slight ropes attached to collars round the animals' necks. These beasts appeared very tractable, for they allowed themselves to be led close to us. I confess I did not much like this degree of propinquity, and eyed the slender cordage with some professional anxiety."
And of another tiger, (he met several), he notes:
"I thought at one time this was to turn out no laughing matter; for, if the angry animal, when at length he lost all patience, had taken a direction towards us, he might have demolished the dynasty of Wadeer, or at least made a vacancy for an officer in his Britannic Majesty's Navy."
Happy Birthday you two! As to the picture... Once again Sir Edward is out of uniform. Or did they not inform him he'd made post?
From the expressions on both their faces, I wonder if there is a juxaposition of TV series here and both Sir Edward and Horatio are about to be forced to eat some of Susan Harper's cooking? Dave
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Date: 2012-02-19 11:18 am (UTC)trying.
failing.
:)
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Date: 2012-02-21 10:50 am (UTC)"On a signal given by the Rajah, a folding door was thrown open on one side of the court and in stalked two immense royal tigers, held by several men on each side by long but slight ropes attached to collars round the animals' necks. These beasts appeared very tractable, for they allowed themselves to be led close to us. I confess I did not much like this degree of propinquity, and eyed the slender cordage with some professional anxiety."
And of another tiger, (he met several), he notes:
"I thought at one time this was to turn out no laughing matter; for, if the angry animal, when at length he lost all patience, had taken a direction towards us, he might have demolished the dynasty of Wadeer, or at least made a vacancy for an officer in his Britannic Majesty's Navy."
Love Basil :)
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Date: 2012-02-19 05:11 pm (UTC)Is the tiger stamped "property of the zoo?"
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Date: 2012-02-19 05:39 pm (UTC)As to the picture... Once again Sir Edward is out of uniform. Or did they not inform him he'd made post?
From the expressions on both their faces, I wonder if there is a juxaposition of TV series here and both Sir Edward and Horatio are about to be forced to eat some of Susan Harper's cooking?
Dave
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Date: 2012-02-21 10:52 am (UTC)Hehe! I am now imagining grown up Pellew in a mid's uniform!
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