Four-footed Americans and their kin . ht difference of opinion withQuick over a plate of scraps, and so kept prudentlyupon the camp rafters, while Quick and Mr. Wolfeyed him in a way that meant trouble for his ring-tailed Furship. Wont you please choose the three Cats with nobodies ? said Dodo to Olive, whose turn it was toselect the picture for the story. I was thinking of choosing the Cats, replied Olive. There are a couple more pictures beside those. Ah,here they are ! The spotted Ocelot, lying in wait in atree, and the Puma, hunting Elk/ ? There is another a little further over, said Rap,
Four-footed Americans and their kin . ht difference of opinion withQuick over a plate of scraps, and so kept prudentlyupon the camp rafters, while Quick and Mr. Wolfeyed him in a way that meant trouble for his ring-tailed Furship. Wont you please choose the three Cats with nobodies ? said Dodo to Olive, whose turn it was toselect the picture for the story. I was thinking of choosing the Cats, replied Olive. There are a couple more pictures beside those. Ah,here they are ! The spotted Ocelot, lying in wait in atree, and the Puma, hunting Elk/ ? There is another a little further over, said Rap, a lean, weaselly-looking beast with a thick tail. It iscalled Civet Cat, though it has a Fox face and a Coontail. You may take out the pictures with the others, COUSINS OF CATS 225 though it is not a Cut at all, but it is a good chance totell you why it is not, said the Doctor. This Northern Civet Cat, or Cacomistle (Bush Cat)as the Wise Men call it, though it belongs in the south-west part of the country, has more names than there. Civet Cat. are days in the week, and all because in appearanceand habits it is a sort of patchwork resembling, fromdifferent points of view, Coon, Fox, Cat, and In killing birds and robbing nests it follows theHouse Cat, and like it prowls at night and makes anamusing pet. Its body, covered with Coon-gray fur, Q 226 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS is about eighteen inches long and ends in such a thick,ringed tail, that you say Coon at once, and it does be-longin the Raccoon family, and is the very least cousinof the Bear, in spite of its catlike ears, whiskers, andslender, lithe body. The Civet Cat also makes its homein hollow branches or stumps like the Coon, and as itclimbs and dodges about, it might easily be taken for awide-eared Squirrel, except for its tail. You see, hereis another case where the tail tells ! After placing the pictures carefully in a row belowthe map, animal tree, and ladder for climbing it, thechildren came back to the fire
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