
          104.

was the mother with her two young.  She had three but one had
already been taken from her.  When we raised the board she
left her young going to another part of cage far from us.  When
the board was replaced she would again join the young ones.
If we would then look at her she would snarl very ferociously.
We learned that the young ones made very good pets, catching 
rats and mice, eating anything you might give them.  We then 
went to the house where the third young one had been taken.
The animal walks very peculiarly when young, as if he had
stretched his legs to an unusual extent raising his body as high
as possible from the ground.  With his legs in this stretched
position his walk is very ungainly.  It was said too that cats
are very much afraid of the raccoons, that they would be driven
out the house by the animal.  This, however, does not seem to
be so with the young coon; for when a cat was brought
near him, she took no notice whatever of him; he, however,
seemed very much afraid, <s>raised</s> curved his back very high, faced the
cat and strutted to and fro (he may, possibly, have been trying to
to frighten the cat).  At Ilchester we found
workmen cutting down the plants along the banks near the
        