Billy the Meerkat who lived “not wisely but too well.” 
He is a household pet in a fashionable home, and has in 
consequence grown somewhat corpulent, for “he neither 
toils nor does he spin.” All his wants are provided 
for him. 
The skull and teeth of a Slender-tailed Meerkat. (Natural 
size.) The canine or fighting teeth are large and sharp, 
and the molar or back teeth are specially adapted for 
crushing the hard shells of beetles and chewing them up. 
