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MANNERS. 
SHORT TAILED MOUSE. Crass Tf. 
ending with a little bufh, about a quarter of an inch 
long. The legs, particularly the fore legs, very 
fhort. ‘ 
This animal makes its neft in moift meadows, 
and brings eight young at a time: it has a ftrong 
affection for them: one that was feduced into a 
wire-trap, by placing its brood in it, was fo intent 
on foftering them, that it appeared quite regardlefs 
of its captivity. The manners of this creature 
much refemble the 28th fpecies: lke it, this refides 
under ground, and lives on nuts, acorns, but 
particularly on corn: it differs from the former in 
the place of its abode: feldom infefting gardens. 
It has been obferved that in houfing a rick of 
corn, the dogs have devoured all the mice of this 
{pecies that they could catch, and rejected the com- 
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mon kind; and that the cats on the contrary would - 
touch none but the laft. 
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