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PET ANIMALS. 



out once a week, and be sure and take care that they never want for 

 water. Never leave anything hot in their way, for if scalding, and 

 they are ravenous, they are likely enough to eat or lap it, though it 

 kills them. For the mange, rub the spots with sulphur ointment, 

 and this, unless it is a very virulent kind of mange, will cure him in 

 four or five days ; tumours which consist of small soft bladders of 

 a circular form, lying close under the skin, must be cut out with a 

 sharp knife ; this, if skilfully done, gives the dog but little pain, and 

 if the skin is again drawn carefully over, the wound will heal of 

 itself. No boy need be told what a dog will eat ; you may safely 

 give him anything from a full grown elephant to a whale, and with 

 time enough, he will finish them both. 



THE SQUIRREL. 



THIS is one of the most beautiful animals that can be tamed and 

 kept within doors, and we know nothing beside that has so splendid 

 and handsome a tail ; for altogether it is a perfect little beauty, and 

 of such a rich red-brown colour as is quite delightful to look at. The 

 squirrel is a native of our woods, and went skipping about among 

 the branches, just as he does now, when the bearded old Druids wor- 

 shipped the oak. There is no animal in England can leap such an 

 immense distance as a squirrel, for it has been seen to spring from one 

 tree to another when the broad, wide, common highroad ran between 

 the two trees. Should it happen to fall on the ground while making 

 these terrific springs, it alights on its feet, and is off and up at the 

 top of the next high tree quicker than the eye can follow it. It is a 

 pretty sight to see it sitting and cracking a nut, which it holds in its 



