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Show The Rata and the Polecats. Tho remarkable cato of a ferret and wild rabbit living together In pcaco recorded In the Manchester flunrd-Inn flunrd-Inn rcmlndt a naturnllat corretonil-ent corretonil-ent at nnolher queer happy family. "I had a wild iHilcrnt (obtained young) reared fur the puriwao ot crusting wllh one ot my ferrets, One day I put two young rats Into tho polo cut' run. thlnkliiR she would dcvoui them. Hhe did nothing of tho kind One the contrary, sho allowed them to suckle her and carefully reared them. Onn ot tho rata died; tho other oth-er Is now a constnnt companion ol tho polecat, nml they often have a run together In the fields around my limine, and nlwara como homo together to-gether and sleep In tho ssmo 'bunk' " |