2o8 OBober 1748. 



run into the wood for its food, and towards 

 night it returned home, and frequently 

 brought a wild deer out of the wood, giv- 

 ing its mafter an opportunity to fhoot it. 

 Several people have therefore tamed young 

 deer, and make ufe of them for hunting 

 wild deer, or for decoying them home, 

 efpecially in the time of their rutting. 



Beavers have been fo tamed that they 

 have gone on fifhing, and brought home 

 what they had caught to their mafters. 

 This often is the cafe with Otters y of which 

 I have feen fome, which were as tame as 

 dogs, and followed their mafters wherever 

 they went ; if he went out in a boat, the 

 otter went with him, jumped into the 

 water, and after a while came up with a 

 fifti. The Opojfum, can like wife be tam- 

 ed, fo as to follow people like a dog. 



The Raccoon which we f Swedes J C2\\ 

 Siupp, can in time be made fo tame as to 

 run about the ftreets like a domeftic animal ; 

 but it is impoflible to make it leave oif its 

 habit of ftealing. In the dark it creeps to 

 the poultry, and kills in one night a whole 

 ftock. Sugar and other fweet things muft 

 be carefully hidden from it, for if the chefts 

 and boxes are not always locked up, it gets 

 into them, eats the fugar, and licks up the 

 treacle with its paws : the ladies therefore 



have 



