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One morning, in the middle of the fight, Jemmy forgot himself for 

 the moment in turning round, and gave the ever-vigilant Little Jack a 

 chance. Little Jack seized Jemmy's tail with screams of delight, and 

 pulled him straight up to the bars. Carroty Jane then joined in, and 

 they were getting the best of it, when suddenly Jemmy turned sharp 

 round and made his teeth meet in Little Jack's hand. Little Jack 

 skirmished round the cage three or four times on three legs ; then, 

 holding up his wounded hand, gazed mournfully and piteously at it, 

 every now and then leaving off looking to make fiercer faces, and cock 

 his ears at Jemmy. Never since has Little Jack ventured his hands 

 outside the bars when a Jemmy-fight came on. 



One of the funniest scenes that ever happened with Jemmy was as 

 follows : Some seaside specimens had been sent me, and among the 

 seaweed was a live shore-crab about the size of a five-shilling piece. 

 Little " Chick - Chick," the marmoset, who will eat any quantity of 

 meal-worms, blue-bottle flies, etc., came down at once off the mantel- 

 piece and examined Mr. Crab, who was crawling about on the floor. 

 None of my animals had evidently seen a live crab before. The mon- 

 keys were very much frightened, and made the same cry of alarm as 

 when I show them a snake or the house-broom. Chick-Chick evi- 

 dently thought that the crab was a huge insect. The crab put out 

 his two nippers at full length, and gave the marmoset such a pinch 

 that he retreated to the mantel-piece, and from this safe height gazed 

 down iipon the still threatening crab, uttering loud cries of " Chick, 

 chick, chick ! " alternated with his plaintive, bat-like, shrill note. Pres- 

 ently round the coi'ner comes Mrs. Cat. The cat evidently thought 

 that the crab, which was gently crawling about, was a mouse. She in- 

 stantly crouched, head, eyes, and ears all intent, as if trying to make 

 up her mind whether the crab was a mouse on which she ought to 

 pounce or not. Hearing the row caused by the crab and mai-moset 

 fight, up comes Jemmy in full cry, with tail cocked well in the air. 

 He also attacked the crab, but could not make head or tail of him. 

 He did not like the smell, still less did he like the sundry nips in the 

 nose that he received from the crab's claws. Jemmy has teeth half 

 carnivorous, half insectivorous. When he is at home in Africa he 

 lives upon mice, beetles, etc. He probably digs these creatures out of 

 the ground, for, whenever he sees a crack in the floor, or a hole in a 

 board, he will scratch away at it, as though much depended upon his 

 exertions. When he is fed, it is curious to observe how he always 

 pretends to kill his food before eating it. He invariably retreats back- 

 ward while he is scratching and biting at his supposed lively food. 

 The living food evidently is in the habit of escaping forward. Mr. 

 Jemmy takes good care that he shall not do so, by scratching incessant- 

 ly in a backward direction. A grand crab and Jemmy fight, which 

 lasted nearly half an hour, then took place, ending in the discomfiture 

 of the crab, whose carcass the marmoset and the cat, both coming for- 



