{{*HTML*}}My friend Jane once found a weasel (鼬鼠) when she was very young. As she was fond of pets, she thought she would bring him up.
Of course he had to be taught: all young things have to, and this weasel knew
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. The good lady first began with
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some milk into her hand and
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him drink from it. Very soon, he would not take milk
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any other way. After his dinner, he would run to a soft blanket that was
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in Jane"s bedroom. He slept there
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one or two hours.
This was all very well in the day, but Jane did not feel
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in leaving him loose during the night. Thus, whenever she went to bed, she
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the weasel up in a little cage that stood
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by. If she
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to wake up early, she would open the cage, and the weasel would come into her bed and go to sleep again
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next to her. If she was already dressed when he was let
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, he would jump all about her, and would never once miss
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on her hands.
All his ways were pretty and gentle. He would stand,
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Jane"s shoulder and give little soft pats to her chin. He would run over a whole room
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of people at the mere sound of her voice. He was very fond of the sun and would roll about whenever it
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on him, The little weasel was rather a thirsty animal, but he would not drink much at a
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. Baths were quite new to him, and he could not
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up his mind to them. Because of his dislike for baths, he suffered a good deal on
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days. His nearest approach to bathing was a
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cloth wrapped round him, and this evidently gave him great pleasure.