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by a kind of coughing or pumping 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. 



After five weeks it cut its two upper front teeth, but in 

 all this time it had not grown the least bit, remaining 

 both in size and weight the same as wben I first procured 

 it. This was no doubt owing to the want of milk or other 

 equally nourishing food. Eice-water, rice, and biscuits 

 were but a poor substitute, and the expressed milk of the 

 cocoa-nut which I sometimes gave it did not quite agree 

 with its stomach. To this I imputed an attack of diarrhoea 

 from which the poor little creature suffered greatly, but a 

 small dose of castor-oil operated well, and cured it. A 

 week or two afterwards it was again taken ill, and this 

 time more seriously. The symptoms were exactly those 

 of intermittent fever, accompanied by watery swellings on 

 the feet and head. It lost all appetite for its food, and, 

 after lingering for a week a most pitiable object, died, 

 after being in my possession nearly three months. I 

 much regretted the loss of my little pet, which I had at 

 one time looked forward to bringing up to years of 

 maturity, and taking home to England. For several 

 months it had afforded me daily amusement by its curious 

 ways and the inimitably ludicrous expression of its little 



