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should also have repeated washings with oil of turpentine 
The back should be round and short. 
THE PORCUPINE. 
In stuffing this animal considerable and varied expression 
may be given, both from the attitude and disposition of the 
quills. Great attention is therefore required in giving these a 
proper set during the process of drying. They will require to 
be looked at several times during the first and second day after 
they have been stuffed, and any of them that may have fallen 
out of the position required, to be adjusted. 
HARES. 
A very pretty attitude for the Hare is to have it seated in 
its form in an upright position, as if alarmed at the noise of 
dogs, &c. An oval is formed of wire and attached to the in- 
terior frame work, after having passed one end of it through 
the anus, which must be passed through a hole in the board 
on which the animal is to be fixed. The wires of the hind 
legs must be forced through the posterior part of them, and 
also fixed into holes formed for their reception in the board. 
ORDER VIL—EDENTATA. 
THE SLOTHS 
Must be mounted in an upright posture, as they are seldom 
or never to be seen walking horizontally, except in finding 
their way from one tree to another. The great length of their 
fur makes it a comparatively easy task to mount them. 
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‘ Are also easily set up, owing to the bands preserving the or- 
dinary shape of the animal. The French Taxidermists do 
not use any of the preservative for the skin, but merely dry it. 
We are, however, of opinion, that they are wrong, as all sorts 
