The Inquibit traveller

Inquibit are the most circumspect of men.
This is why (I am sure of it) this one particular servant had been sent to fetch jewels from every corner of the land.
The way home was long and arduous. Soon the servant arrived at a fork in the road where a dog lay on the ground.
‘Come my way’, said the dog, ‘Your journey shall be quicker and easier. Call me anything but a dog, and I shall let you pass.’
Now the crafty traveller thought for a bit, and then he said:
‘You Sir, are a tiny kitten. Now let me pass.’
So the dog let him pass.
The servant soon forgot about the dog, until he arrived at a place where a bear slept in the road.
The bear opened one quarter of one eye:
‘Call me anything but a bear’, said the bear, ‘And I shall not devour you whole where you stand.’
‘You!’ cried the clever servant, ‘Are surely a field mouse, and a very friendly one at that. Now let me pass.’
So the bear let him pass.
Dusk fell and the Inquibit found he could hardly see his way at all. Just as he sat down fire burst from the trees in the shape of a tiger.
‘Do not speak to me!’, shrieked the servant, ‘For I already know I must call you anything but a TIGER!’
Except the more he thought, the less he could think of any other name for a tiger, than a tiger.
Well, can you?
The servant fled like thunder back up the track, straight into the path of sleeping bear.
‘It is my friendly bear!’, he whispered in his softest voice.
Only the bear must have heard him, because without opening even one quarter of one eye, he devoured the Inquibit whole
Even as he slept.