NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 
body, she rolled into a ball with the rats held tight 
under her arms and between her legs, and her chin 
clapped down tight on top. So fiercely did she 
growl that he was rather afraid to tackle her. 
Eventually she was scooped up into a net, rats and 
all, and deposited in her cage. 
Fearing another midnight raid, a cage of iron bars, 
strong enough to resist the efforts of a grizzly bear, 
was erected. In this for the past year she has 
rolled, tumbled, and paraded; often for three or 
four hours she continually runs up and down her 
cage at a rather fast swinging trot. At the back 
of her cage is a window, and outside of it is a ledge 
nine inches broad running along the wall a distance 
of fifty feet. ‘The window was at that time covered 
with strong netting, and breaking through this and 
squeezing under the slightly open window she 
paraded for a couple of hours up and down the 
ledge, which is at a height of about sixty feet from 
the street below. Crowds gathered below and stared, 
expecting every moment to see her come toppling 
down. Tiring of her monotonous parade, she 
squeezed in again under the window into her cage 
. and lay down and slept. 
When Jeannie first arrived at the museum she 
was rather timid and nervous, and at intervals, 
when very frightened, excreted a fluid from certain 
anal glands which had a vile musky smell, very 
similar to that of the muishond or polecat, but not 
quite so powerful or pungent. ‘This evil-smelling 
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