If No One Was In The
House, Or Its Cries Were Not Attended To, It Would Be Quiet After
A Little While, But The Moment It Heard A Footstep Would Begin
Again Harder Than Ever.
After five weeks it cut its two upper front teeth, but in all
this time it had not grown the least bit, remaining both in size
and weight the same as when I first procured it.
This was no
doubt owing to the want of milk or other equally nourishing food.
Rice-water, rice, and biscuits were but a poor substitute, and
the expressed milk of the cocoa-nut which I sometimes gave it did
not quite agree with its stomach. To this I imputed an attack of
diarrhoea from which the poor little creature suffered greatly,
but a small dose of castor-oil operated well, and cured it. A
week or two afterwards it was again taken ill, and this time more
seriously. The symptoms were exactly those of intermittent fever,
accompanied by watery swellings on the feet and head. It lost all
appetite for its food, and, after lingering for a week a most
pitiable object, died, after being in my possession nearly three
months. I much regretted the loss of my little pet, which I had
at one time looked forward to bringing up to years of maturity,
and taking home to England. For several months it had afforded me
daily amusement by its curious ways and the inimitably ludicrous
expression of its little countenance.
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