VII. 



THE OCELOT. 

 I. NICO. 



While the strange friendship between my 

 spider monkey and her chosen companions was 

 progressing, a curious attachment sprang up 

 between a pair even more incongruous, natural 

 enemies in fact. These were a deer not fully 

 grown, and the baby-tiger or ocelot already men- 

 tioned. 



This personage had come upon the scene at a 

 very tender age, a few weeks it was supposed, 

 and his entry was sensational. He was fero- 

 ciously hungry; and though he did not know 

 how to eat, he knew too well how to make him- 

 self heard. He cried and made such a disturb- 

 ance that he was not welcome anywhere, till he 

 fell into the hands of the spider monkey's mis- 

 tress. 



This lady, who had carried to that land of 

 ease-loving people something more than gram- 

 mar and arithmetic, namely, her New England 

 " faculty," soon devised a way to feed the riot- 

 ous infant, by soaking a sponge in milk, and 



