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Updated: June 9, 2025
And uncomely withal: a neutral-tinted mite, almost lost in his immense box-cage of hinoki wood, darkened with paper screens over its little wire-grated windows, for he loves the gloom. Delicate he is and exacting even to tyranny. All his diet must be laboriously triturated and weighed in scales, and measured out to him at precisely the same hour each day.
In its large box-cage or prison, where it could see nothing but the tree above it, it was tame, and would at times frisk playfully about my hand and strike it gently with its forefeet; but the moment it was liberated in a room, or let down in the grass with a string about its neck, all its wild nature came forth.
The two children, as well as the other boys who were to take part in the show in the big tent later on, were now following the crowd around to see the animals. "Behold the wild chicken-eater of the woods!" cried Ben, as he pulled aside a blanket from another wooden box-cage. This time there was a sort of snarl and bark.
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