pleased, but it could not get all four hands in a comfortable
position, and, after changing about several times, would leave
hold of one hand after the other, and drop onto the floor.
Sometimes when hanging only by two hands, it would loose one, and
cross it to the opposite shoulder, grasping its own hair; and, as
this seemed much more agreeable than the stick, it would then
loose the other and tumble down, when it would cross both and lie
on its back quite contentedly, never seeming to be hurt by its
numerous tumbles. Finding it so fond of hair, I endeavoured to
make an artificial mother, by wrapping up a piece of buffalo-skin
into a bundle, and suspending it about a foot from the floor. At
first this seemed to suit it admirably, as it could sprawl its
legs about and always find some hair, which it grasped with the
greatest tenacity. I was now in hopes that I had made the little
orphan quite happy; and so it seemed for some time, until it
began to remember its lost parent, and try to suck. It would pull
itself up close to the skin, and try about everywhere for a
likely place; but, as it only succeeded in getting mouthfuls of
hair and wool, it would be greatly disgusted, and scream
violently, and, after two or three attempts, let go altogether.
One day it got some wool into its throat, and I thought it would
have choked, but after much gasping it recovered, and I was
obliged to take the imitation mother to pieces again, and give up
this last attempt to exercise the little creature.

After the first week I found I could feed it better with a spoon,
and give it a little more varied and more solid food. Well-soaked
biscuit mixed with a little egg and sugar, and sometimes sweet
potatoes, were readily eaten; and it was a never-failing
amusement to observe the curious changes of countenance by which