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COUSIN SARAH. 



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Not content with washing and brushing his pet, Mr. 

 Wallace went so far as to make an artificial mamma for it 

 out of a buffalo skin made up into a bundle. At first this 

 seemed to suit it admirably, as it could sprawl its legs about 



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AFTER THE BATH. 



and always find some hair, which it grasped with the 

 greatest tenacity. But the little one, tired of a thin and 

 meagre rice-water diet, expected more of its foster-parent 

 than the buffalo bundle was in a position to supply, 



