The latter I felt carefully over, but found nothing.

On passing my hand, however, along his back, I perceived a slight erection of the hair extending completely across it.

Probing this with my finger, I discovered a string, and tracing it up, found that it encircled the whole body.

Upon a closer scrutiny, I came across a small slip of what had the feeling of letter paper, through which the string had been fastened in such a manner as to bring it immediately beneath the left shoulder of the animal..