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straw begins to smell, it pushes it out with it's 
muzzle, as if to demand fresh litter, and even 
goes in search of rags or paper to supply it's* 
place. It often forms a new nest for itself in 
obscure corners, and even under the kitchen 
grate, which nothing but force can make it 
quit. 
The animal kept by BufFon, was a Female; 
and she had such a propensity to cleanliness, 
that she took an aversion to a large Male Rab- 
bit, which had been shut up with her when 
she w T as in season, the moment he voided his 
excrement in their common apartment. " She' 
had before received him so cordially," says 
BufFon, " that something was expected. She 
had even made considerable advances ; for she 
licked his nose, ears, and body, and allowed 
him to take almost the whole of her food r 
but, as soon as the Rabbit had infected the 
cage with his ordure, she retired into the bot- 
tom of an old press, where she made a bed of 
paper and rags ; and returned fiot to her old 
lodging, till she saw it made neat, and freed 
from the unclean guest which had been pre- 
sented to her.' 7 
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