A Chinaman found his wife lying dead in a field one morning; a tiger had killed her.
The Chinaman went home, procured some arsenic, and, returning to the field, sprinkled it over the corpse.
The next day the tiger's dead body lay beside the woman's. The Chinaman sold the tiger's skin to a mandarin, and its body to a physician to make fear-cure powders, and with the proceeds he was able to buy a younger wife.
