there was, and then push it all out between its lips. If 

 the same food was continued, it would proceed to 

 scream and kick about violently, exactly like a baby in 

 a passion & When I had had it about a month it be- 

 gan to exhibit some signs of learning to run alone. 

 When laid upon the floor it would push itself along by 

 its legs, or roll itself over, and thus make an unwieldy 

 progression. When lying in the box it would lift itself 

 up to the edge in an almost erect position, and once or 

 twice succeeded in tumbling out. When left dirty or 

 hungry, or otherwise neglected, it would scream vio- 

 lently till attended to, varied by a kind of coughing 

 noise, very similar to that which is made by the adult 

 animal. If no one was in the house, or its cries were 

 not attended to, it would be quiet after a little while; 

 but the moment it heard a footstep would begin again, 

 harder than ever. It was very human. 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



JHE most lasting result of the wanderings 

 of Alfred Russel Wallace consists in his 

 having established what is known to us as 

 " The Wallace Line." ' 

 This line is a boundary that divides in a 

 geographical way that portion of Malay- 

 sia which belongs to the continent of Asia from that 

 which belongs to the continent of Australia. 

 The Wallace Line covers a distance of more than four 

 thousand miles, and in this expanse there are three 

 islands in which Great Britain could be set down with- 

 out anywhere touching the sea. 



Even yet the knowledge of the average American or 

 European is very hazy about the size and extent of 



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