Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Tamba, the Tame Tiger: His Many Adventures

Tamba, the tame tiger, looked out between the iron bars of the big circus-wagon cage where he lived and glared at Nero, the lion who was next door to him. Their cages were close together in the circus tent, and Nero, pacing up and down in his, had, accidentally, let his long,...

Chapters

12. CHAPTER XII

Tamba, the tame tiger, had hidden himself away in the dark part of the ship called the “hold.” It was there that the cargo was stored――the place where boxes, barrels, and big wo...

9. CHAPTER IX

Tamba, the tame tiger, had really come to the city on a load of hay. I know it sounds very strange to say that, but it really happened. I have often seen dogs riding along on a...

6. CHAPTER VI

At first when he went into the barn through the door which was open, Tamba, the tame tiger, could not see very much. It was the same as when you go into a dark moving-picture th...

1. CHAPTER I

Tamba, the tame tiger, looked out between the iron bars of the big circus-wagon cage where he lived and glared at Nero, the lion who was next door to him. Their cages were close...

10. CHAPTER X

Queer as it may seem, Tamba had done that very thing. He had run from the street into the opening of a subway station in a big city, thinking it was a cave. And if you have ever...

4. CHAPTER IV

Down on the black nose of the sleeping lion went the soft, fuzzy tip of Tamba’s tail. And Tamba tickled Nero so hard that the lion gave a big sneeze and awakened with a jump.

7. CHAPTER VII

Tamba did not need to be told twice what to do. As soon as he heard the kind words of the cow the tame tiger ran softly on his padded feet and snuggled down again in the straw....

3. CHAPTER III

Just as Tum Tum had said, a lion’s cage was being wheeled into the circus animal tent, and in the cage was a big, tawny, yellow animal, which Tamba knew, at once, was a lion.

5. CHAPTER V

With the smashed circus cars, the broken animal cages, with some of the jungle beasts, including the elephants, cut and bruised, with shoutings, growlings, roarings and tootings...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Tamba, the tame tiger, rearing up on his hind legs to look down into the pig pen, saw the funny look on the face of the animal who had spoken to him.

2. CHAPTER II

Bang! Crack! Crash! went the thunder, and the cage of Tamba, the tame tiger, as it slid along the slippery, muddy road, and struck a tree, made much the same noise, only not so...

11. CHAPTER XI

The sun was brightly shining when Tamba, the tame tiger, awakened in his bed at the dock. I call it a “bed” for he had snuggled down on a pile of bags between some boxes and bal...