This chair, which was highly valued as a relic of the past, was also badly injured.

A part of the needle-work, which had cost so many hours of patient toil, was torn in every direction, and some of the hair, with which the cushion was stuffed, was pulled out, and scattered about the floor.
As soon as Mrs.Lee had fully comprehended the extent of the mischief, she went to the stair-way, and called her daughter.

A glance satisfied Mrs.Preston that Tiger must have been there; and she was confirmed in this belief by Bridget, who remembered that the dog came down into the kitchen, just after Mrs.Lee went up.

But they could not tell how the little rogue got shut into the room.

They concluded, however, that some of the children did it by accident, or that the dog slipped in unperceived when Mrs.Lee came out from the chamber before dinner.
Oscar did not go directly home from school, but as soon as he entered the house, he learned what Tiger had done, from the other children.