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I interpreted his expressions as meaning. Then a hissing match 

 commenced, each trying to outdo the other, and both with plumage 

 and hair respectively erected to their utmost capacity. 



The Captain had been punished for interfering with birds, either 

 alive or stuffed, further than that he was allowed to look them over 

 and smell of them a reasonable amount in the case of stuffed speci- 

 mens. Consequently he did not dare to touch Sambo and confined 

 his actions to protesting at the appearance of this "bird-cat" from a 

 respectable distance. This show was repeated daily, or as many 

 times a day as the two met in the course of the Captain's tours of 

 investigation of the garden and surrounding buildings. 



I tried on several occasions to secure a photograph of the pair, 

 but in the semi-obscurity of the shop a flash light was necessary, and 

 Captain Dannie had a pet aversion to flash-light photographs born of 

 his first experience, and would promptly flee whenever he saw signs 

 of such events pending. 



Sambo proved a very tractable subject with the camera. On 

 several occasions I took him into the woods and posed him in various 

 positions in the trees and shrubbery, securing a number of good neg- 

 atives of him, one of which is herewith appended, which, though 

 not the best, shows him in his most characteristic attitude. 



Sambo resolutely refused to eat while anybody was watching 

 him, unless his bill was forcibly opened and the food pressed down 

 so that he must swallow it willy-nilly. If the food was left over 

 night it had generally disappeared by morning, and he preferred 

 beef or other red meat to anything else we had to offer him. 



During the daytime he was usually very quiet unless disturbed. 

 I feel sure that he was able to see very well, even in the glaring sun, 

 while his hearing was remarkably acute. At night he prowled 

 about the shop from one end to the other, and for all we knew 

 caught mice or rats in quantity. Ultimately he died, as is the fate 

 of all pets, and Captain Dannie has also passed to his final home, 

 but many pleasant recollections of both these pets still remain to me. 



