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in the discomfiture of the crab, whose carcass the marmoset 

 and the cat, both coming forward, evidently desired to 

 share. Although it was apparent that the taste of the 

 crab was not agreeable to Jemmy's palate, yet he gradually 

 ate him up — claws, shells, and all — simply to prevent the 

 other animals from getting a single bit. 



8. Jemmy has teeth half carnivorous, half insectivorous. 

 When he is at home in Africa he lives upon mice, beetles, 

 etc. He probably digs these creatures out of the ground, 

 for, whenever he sees a crack in the floor, or a hole in a 

 board, he will scratch away at it, as though much depended 

 upon his exertions. When he is fed, it is curious to ob- 

 serve how he always pretends to kill his food before eating 

 it. He invariably retreats backward while he is scratching 

 and biting at his supposed lively food. The living food 

 evidently is in the habit of escaping forward. Mr. Jemmy 

 takes good care that he shall not do so, by scratching in- 

 cessantly in a backward direction. 



9. The cat's-meat man comes punctually every day at 

 half-past one; when the cats hear the cry "meat," they 

 rush down into the area, and Master Jemmy, seeing them 

 bolt, would run also, his object being to steal the ration of 

 meat from one of the cats. By instinct or experience he 

 had somehow found out that the cat's claws are very sharp, 

 and whereas his mode of attack upon the monkey was face 

 to face, the monkeys being clawless, he attacked the cats 

 by ruffing his hair up and pushing himself backward. 



10. The cat, annoyed by being disturbed at dinner, 

 would leave off eating and strike sharply at Jemmy with 

 her paw ; that was his opportunity. In a moment he 

 would seize the cat's meat and bolt with it, but by a most 

 peculiar method, for when within striking distance of the 

 cat's paw he would turn round and back up to the cat's 

 face, and, directly she struck at him, he caught the blow 

 on the back ; then he would put his nose down through his 



