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where they are nourished and kept for about six weeks. 

 After this they venture out and dimb about over the 

 body of the parent, clinging to her fur. Sometimes 



A Chicken-house Thief 



the mother arches her tail over her back, very much 

 after the fashion of a squirrel, and the little ones 

 ding to it by their prehensile tails, heads down, and 



