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A NATURALIST ON THE PROWL. 
down ; but when he was in a hurry, he would stand up and 
go bounding along like a kangaroo, with his tail in the 
air, his arms extended, and all his fingers spread, looking 
like nothing I ever saw. A friend assured me that he 
was exactly like the devil, which may be, but Lemur 
means a ghost, 
or shade of 
one departed. 
The servants, 
one and all, 
regarded him 
as a bhoot and 
fled at his ap- 
proach. He 
gave chase, of 
course, and 
there was 
never finer 
A GLEEFUL LITTLE DEMON. 
sport than to 
see the fat butler in full flight up a long staircase, with the 
gleeful little demon after him, clearing three steps at a bound. 
But I have wandered a good way from my Long-tailed 
Mouse. You will see that there is a sort of connection 
