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NAUGHTY NASNA. 



man does when he leans upon his staff, 

 funny habit it is called the cane-bird. 



On account of this 



NAUGHTY NASN"!. 



IS^ASNA was a coati-mundi, a cousin of the raccoon family. 

 She was about the size of a cat, with thick, coarse fur, brown on 

 the back and sides, and shading from yellow to orange underneath. 

 She had a head and four legs, and a fat body; but the two most 



important parts of her, in her own 

 '^■"^ / ) opinion at least, were her nose 

 (^ ■^lOv and her tail. The tail was 



certainly very handsome, 

 long, and bushy, with black 

 and yellow rings round it. 

 The nose was long, too, 

 — long and sharp, and 

 always poking, poking 

 itself everywhere. There 

 never was such an in- 

 quisitive nose. IlTow it 

 was lifting the lid of a 

 pot on the kitchen fire 

 (for Ifasna was tame, 

 and a great pet of her 

 master's), and scalding 



itself with the steam ; now 

 it was sniffing at a bottle 

 of strong ammonia, with- 

 out seeming to be troubled 

 the least by the smell; now 

 as in her master's pocket, 

 to find out what it was 

 "Tick! tick!" 



