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you cease to LIVE and to be alive to 

 interests and improvements, you are 

 either ossified or dead. Some people 

 continue to walk about that should 

 have died years ago, and some people 

 keep pets when they should have stop- 

 ped before they began — or SOON 



after. 



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Now let us take it for granted that 

 you are adapted to keeping pets and 

 seriously inquire as to what kind you 

 shall keep and how you shall keep 

 them. 



Rats, snakes, toads and many other 

 forms of life commonly regarded as 

 disagreeable have at least one decided 

 advantage ; they are the best test of 

 your altruistic spirit, and perhaps in 

 so far are the best pets. But the trou- 

 ble comes in that if you dislike them, 

 you will not make it altruistic gym- 

 nastics, but neglect. Therefore, though 

 it be illogical from the argument of 

 this article, keep the kind you like best. 

 It is better to have the pets well cared 

 for than for you to be greatly improv- 

 ed. Who knows but that the pet may 

 be more important than you. 



Cavies — they are not Guinea pigs 

 because they did not come from 

 Guinea, nor are they pigs — have many 

 advantages. Other than mice or rats, 

 there are no four-footed pets better 

 adapted to small space. They may 

 even be kept in a small box in the 



A WHITE RABBIT. 



house. If in a place where there are 

 no dogs or cats, there is not even the 

 necessity of a cover for they will not 

 jump out. In one end for a dark cham- 

 ber, turn a smaller box with a hole in 

 the side bottom upwards, which will 

 be all that is needed for the "home." 

 Keep the bottom covered with litter 

 and clean as frequently as may be 

 necessary. 



IKT," A BLACK ENGLISH RAP.P.IT AND HIS PECULIARLY MIXED OFFSPRING. 



