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thing at last, and wondering that all its exertions could get no milk 

 out of it. It would persevere for a long time till at last it gave it up 

 with despair and disgust, indicated generally by a very baby-like 

 scream." 



The little thing soon got familiar, and tweaked Mr. Wallace's beard 

 most affectionately, bringing tears into his eyes with the excess of its 

 demonstrations. He soon fed the little creature with a spoon, and 

 made its food rather more solid. It would lick its lips, draw in its 

 cheeks, and turn up its eyes in ecstacy when it received a spoonful 

 that was peculiarly palateable. 



" In order to give my infant," continues Mr. Wallace, " a little 

 exercise and strengthen its limbs, I contrived a kind of ladder, upon 

 which I put it to hang for a quarter of an hour at a time ; but this 

 was not much to its liking, as it could not get all four of its legs into 

 convenient positions. It would hang for some time by two hands 

 only, and then, suddenly leaving go with one, would cross it to the 

 opposite shoulder to catch hold of its own hair, and thinking, no 

 doubt, that that would support it much better than the stick, would 

 leave hold with the other hand, and come tumbling down on to the 

 floor, when it would immediately cross its arms and lie quite con- 

 tented, for it never seemed hurt by any of its numerous tumbles. I 

 then tried to make a kind of artificial mother for the little creature by 

 wrapping up a piece of buffalo skin into a bundle with the long 

 woolly hair outside, and hung it up about a foot from the ground. 

 This suited it much better, as it could sprawl its legs and arms about 

 wherever it liked, and always find some hair to catch hold of, which 

 its little fingers grasped with the greatest tenacity. But the very 

 success of this plan led to its speedy disuse ; it was too natural, and 

 the poor little creature, thinking it had recovered its mother, was con- 

 tinually trying to suck. It would pull itself up close by the strength 

 of its arms, and try everywhere for a likely place, but only succeeded 

 in getting mouthfuls of wool, when of course it would be greatly dis- 

 gusted, screamed violently, and, if not rescued, would soon let itself 

 fall. One day it got so much wool into its throat that I thought it 

 would have been choked, but, after much gasping, it recovered, and 

 this plan of giving it exercise had to be discontinued. 



" After I had had it about a month, it began to exhibit some little 

 signs of learning to run alone. When laid upon the floor it would 

 push itself along by its legs or roll over, and thus make an unwieldy 

 progression. When in its box it would lift itself up to the edge into 

 almost an erect position, and once or twice succeeded in tumbling out. 



