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gone on fifliing, and brought home v/hat they 

 had caught to their mailers. This often is the 

 cafe with Otters, of which I have feen fome, 

 which were as tame as dogs, and followed their 

 mafters wherever they went ; if he went out in 

 a boat, the otter went with him, jumped into 

 the water, and after awhile came up with a fifli. 

 The OpoJJum can likewife be tamed, fo as to fol- 

 low people like a dog. 



THE Raccoon, which we (Swedes) call Siupp, 

 can in time be made fo tame as to run about the 

 ftreets like a domeftic animal ; but it is impoffi- 

 ble to make it leave off its habit of ftealing. In 

 the dark it creeps to the poultry, and kills in 

 one night a whole flock. Sugar and other fweet 

 things muft be carefully hidden from it ; for if 

 the chefts and boxes are not always locked up, it 

 gets into them, eats the fugar, and licks up the 

 treacle with its paws : the ladies therefore have 

 every day fome complaint againft it, and for this 

 reafon many people rather forbear the diveriion 

 which this ape-like animal affords. 



THE grey and fly ing ^ Squirrels are fo tamed by 

 the boys, that they fit on their {boulders, and 

 follow them every where. 



THE Turkey Cocks and Hens run about in the 

 woods of this country, and differ in nothing 

 from our tame ones, except in their fuperior fize, 

 and redder, though more palatable fleih. When 

 their eggs are found in the wood, and put under 

 tame Turkey hens, the young ones become tame ; 

 however, when they grow up, it fometimes hap- 

 pens that they fly away ; their wings are there- 

 fore commonly clipped, efpecially when young. 



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