MONGOLA AND HIS BROTHERS 



for his eyes seemed to be placed more obliquely 

 than those of the others, thus reminding me of 

 a Chinaman. The hairs in his tail stood out 

 and fell loosely in all directions when it was 

 raised, like the beautiful plumes of a pompon. 

 His head was cone-shaped, with a long pointed 

 nose and little ears, that were almost entirely 

 hidden in the fur. A streak of white extended 

 along the center of the front of his head, broad- 

 ening into a wide patch back of his ears. From 

 this patch it extended downward in a strip along 

 each side of the animal to the base of his tail. 

 With the exception of this white trimming and 

 the underpart of the tail and its tip Mongola 

 was dressed in glossy black hair. 



The second one I called Cannibal. He was 

 the first to eat some live grasshoppers I put 

 into the box to tempt their dainty appetites. 

 The third was called Snip, for he was smaller 

 and seemingly more backward than the others. 



Cannibal and Snip were marked similarly to 

 Mongola, except that the white fur of their 

 coats was more prominent and the hairs on 

 their tails stood out on each side only when 

 they raised them gracefully above their black 



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