Perhaps someone collected him and thought he was an expensive kind unknown in these cold latitudes.
The lawn under the cedar was transformed into a dream of beauty, what with the stuffed creatures and the paper-tailed things and the waterfall.

And Alice said-- 'I wish the tigers did not look so flat.' For of course with pillows you can only pretend it is a sleeping tiger getting ready to make a spring out at you.

It is difficult to prop up tiger-skins in a life-like manner when there are no bones inside them, only pillows and sofa cushions.
'What about the beer-stands ?' I said.

And we got two out of the cellar.
With bolsters and string we fastened insides to the tigers--and they were really fine.

The legs of the beer-stands did for tigers' legs.