NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



body, she rolled into a ball with the rats held tight 

 under her arms and between her legs, and her chin 

 clapped down tight on top. So fiercely did she 

 growl that he was rather afraid to tackle her. 

 Eventually she was scooped up into a net, rats and 

 all, and deposited in her cage. 



Fearing another midnight raid, a cage of iron bars, 

 strong enough to resist the efforts of a grizzly bear, 

 was erected. In this for the past year she has 

 rolled, tumbled, and paraded ; often for three or 

 four hours she continually runs up and down her 

 cage at a rather fast swinging trot. At the back 

 of her cage is a window, and outside of it is a ledge 

 nine inches broad running along the wall a distance 

 of fifty feet. The window was at that time covered 

 with strong netting, and breaking through this and 

 squeezing under the slightly open window she 

 paraded for a couple of hours up and down the 

 ledge, which is at a height of about sixty feet from 

 the street below. Crowds gathered below and stared, 

 expecting every moment to see her come toppling 

 down. Tiring of her monotonous parade, she 

 squeezed in again under the window into her cage 

 and lay down and slept. 



When Jeannie first arrived at the museum she 

 was rather timid and nervous, and at intervals, 

 when very frightened, excreted a fluid from certain 

 anal glands which had a vile musky smell, very 

 similar to that of the muishond or polecat, but not 

 quite so powerful or pungent. This evil-smelling 

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