



CIVET. 



treatment that nuist be used in order to effect the desu-ed pnqwse, and snaps and 

 twists about with sucli lithe and ehistic vigour that no one couhl venture to lav a 

 hand on it without suitieient precaution. So, when the time amves for the 

 removal of the i)erfunic, the Civet is put into a long and very narrow cage, so 

 tliat it cannot turn itself round. A bone or horn sj)oon is then introduced through 

 an opening, and the odoriferous secretion is scraped from its pouch with perfect 

 impunity. This end achieved, the plundered animal is released from its strait 

 durance, and is permitted a respite until the supply of perfume shall be 

 re-formed. 



As the Civet might be inconvenienced by the contiiuial secretion of this 

 substance. Nature supplies a simple remedy, and the perfume falls from the 

 l)ouch in pieces about the size of an ordinary nut. The interior of each half of 

 the pouch is sufficiently capacious to hold a large almond. As the civet is formed. 



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