WEASELS 



consists wholly of bands of dark rubbery muscles 

 laid on rather sparingly, except about the head 

 and neck, where they swell out in a manner that 

 lacks but little of spoiling the general symmetry 

 of form displayed by these creatures. Those 

 that control the movements of the head and 

 jaws, in particular, strike one as almost abnormal 

 in their development, — like those of a bull-dog, 

 for example, — though without displaying any of 

 the clumsiness of structure characteristic of that 

 animal. 



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