The Little Brown Bat Mammals 
she wishes to hunt more easily, she hangs her little 
youngsters upon some twig, and they are sufficiently 
well-trained to stay there until she returns to-get 
them. 
Bats should be handled with care, since they are 
able to give a very sharp nip with their needle-like 
teeth. They may be caught in an insect net and 
gradually tamed. The following account of her 
experience with a bat by Miss Evelyn Groesbeck 
Mitchell, will suggest the proper treatment for this 
pet: 
My first bat came to me in the following manner. 
One day a small, excited, red-headed boy rushed 
up to me with a pasteboard box, from which came a 
great hissing, scratching and squeaking, a sharp, 
penetrating, painfully high, metallic squeaking that 
set my ears aching. . 
“What is it, Michael?” I asked. 
“Tis a quare mouse I found in me cellar,”’ said 
Michael, “I know ye loike mice. Luk at him.” 
Carefully I slid off the cover, holding the box 
beneath a large glass jar. Out bustled a highly 
indignant little Brown Bat, hissing like a boiled-over 
kettle and scrambling about in a ludicrous fashion on 
his outstretched wings and tiny feet. 
I took the little beastie home and put himinaglass- 
sided box with wire top. He at once hung himself 
up-side-down from the wire by the hooked claws of his 
hind feet and vented his wrath in a series of shrill 
squeaks, which he kept up all night. 
On my venturing to peep at him next day it seemed 
as if he would literally burst with rage. Offers of 
food, in the shape of flies at the end of a long straw, 
were snappishly rejected. For a whole day the 
obstinate little rascal starved himself. About six 
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