Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 126
kept in captivity. Mr. Samuel Lockwoodonce published in the Popular Science Monthly(1872) a most interesting and amusing accountof the life and adventures of a Nosey thathe had kept as a pet. Judging from his des-cription I should say it would be hard to findamong wild quadrupeds a more interesting… … THE RACOON. For who does not know this cunning, mischiev-ous, good-tempered rogue, that stretches hishairy arms far out between the bars of his 690 THE RACOON AND HIS FRIENDS. [June, cage, and offers you the black paw of good-fellowship whenever you come near him ?His beady black eyes twinkle at…
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