rently only when hungry, anditallowed itself to be handled with 
a week, one of the others was 
purchased and placed in the same room, about which they now 
ran in perfect amity, gamboling and playing together like kittens, 
I fed them with meat, Unios and Helices, which they ate either 
raw or cooked. They would often, as Lentered the apartment, 
run toward me, and frisk about my feet and always obeyed my 
call. Living mice were seized by th em, and hugged with all 
their feet and legs, while with the m th they bit fiercely all 
along the spine in rapid succession, and then they attacked the 
_ head and other parts of the — whole process "being, the | 
a am 
When they shou a gies old, I enfeebled a large oil ; 
veteran brown rat by almost suffocating him under water, and 
placed him in their view; they immediately \scampered off in 
evident affright. Maiming the rat by sundry blows upon his 
head, he was fastened in an empty box with the weasels; these, : 
dashing furiously but vainly against the glass lid to effect their 
escape, at last huddled together in a remote corner, while the rat, 
with seeming gravity and unconcern, sat motionless at the other 
side of the box, the weasels still manifesting great trepidation, 
I then shook them together, when the rat bit one of the weasels 
on the back so as totally to paralyze its hind legs; and the other 
_ weasel, escaping immediately from the box without a wound, 
was thrown into violent but transient convulsions. For these 
spasmodic attacks, renewed at short intervals for perhaps twenty — 
minutes, I can assign no other cause than extreme terror. The | 
bitten weasel refused to eat, became rapidly emaciated, and soon 
died. The other, not feeling himself safe even in the wide room, 
with such a mortal enemy, jumped out of a second story wilt 
dow, and ran away. 
Rats and Mice.—A cuit of the Penny Magazine, 
Part XI, attempts to prove that mice have no instinctive fear of 
the cat, by the fact, that having caught a mouse ina secluded 
part of one of the coal mines.of England,—a mine into which 4 
cat had never been introduced,—he placed it in a glass lanterm, 
and after several days admitted a cat into the room; the 
rushed toward the imprisoned mouse with “ dire intent, but the 
mouse, perfectly indifferent to its fury, proceeded with its ablue 
tions, 
