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cage, and so after some hesitation a 

 partition was run across the cage in 

 its centre, dividing it into two com- 

 partments, each measuring about 

 eighteen inches by sixteen, and in this 

 way both the strangers seemed to be 

 fairly well lodged and without risk of 

 collision. During the daytime the 

 tiger-cat was quiet, but he made night 

 hideous at intervals by his yells. This 

 went on for two days, but on the 

 morning of the third day the tiger- 

 cat was found growling over the dead 

 body of the poor squirrel, which by 

 some means hard to conjecture he had 

 dragged into his own den, either 

 through the front bars or under the 

 partition. The squirrel was quite 

 dead, but it had not been torn or 



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