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FOUR-HANDED FOLK 



one look at him ; it seemed to give him a nervous 

 shock. Sometimes, too, he thus reproved even 

 his mistress, when she offended him by putting 

 on eyeglasses, or a bonnet. 



From certain performances of his own, and 

 from the unnatural actions of a dog before he 

 came to me, the little fellow had established 

 the reputation of being " queer " and received 

 the extraordinary name of Mephistopheles. The 

 dog — a very intelligent spaniel — looked upon 

 him with peculiar suspicion and disfavor. He 

 plainly longed to shake the life out of him, as he 

 did with a rat, but his master not allowing this, 

 he restrained himself, at the same time declining 

 to make friends with him, as he had with other 

 pets in the household. He treated the marmoset 

 always with the same reserve, and at last refused 

 even to go into the room where he was kept,' 

 although it was his master's studio, and had been 

 his favorite retreat. He would stand at the 

 door and whine, and cry, and wag his tail, to 

 show his friend that he did not lack affection for 

 him ; but over the threshold he would not step. 



