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ing her persecutor dazed with astonishment. Then, in a moment, for- 

 getting all, she would turn her attention to the setter-dog, and, despite 

 his growls and menacing teeth, would keep up a systematic worrying, 

 catching at his tail, nipping at his legs, and even poking her nose into 



Fig. 9. 



Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur eatta). The Lemurs constitute the lowest family of the Monkeys. A little 

 animal of South America, known as the Kinkajou. is, in external aspect and general habit, very like 

 the Lemurs, and yet is placed by systematists close to, and in the same family with, the Coati-Mondi. 

 to whom its plantigrade feet show its near relationship. But this first-cousin of Coati-Mondi is also 

 not unlike the Sapajous, or hijar monkeys, for it has a head like them, and also their accomplish- 

 ment of a long prehensile taiL (See Fig-. 10.) Coati-Mondi has Lemurine traits also. 



his ears. At length, the poor brute, fairly goaded into mge, seized her 

 like a rat, and, but for my prompt interference, that would have been 

 the last display of Nasua's rashness. One morning she got into the 

 as we were at breakfast. She took possession of mad- 



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dining-room 



