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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



the field of human life as influenced by 

 nature look forward hopefully to the 

 time when it shall be considered as com- 

 mendable to help a boy or girl to observe 

 the growth of a common plant as it shall 

 be to enable a technical scientist to 

 measure the length, breadth and thick- 

 ness of that plant's microscopic stomata 

 or to discuss learnedly its metabolism or 

 the diameter of its ducts. 



Let us pray for the day when the 

 evangelist shall be as highly honored as 

 the "higher critic" or the technical theo- 

 logian ; when the disseminator shall be 

 as assisted as is the discoverer ; when 

 the popularizer shall be as greatly ap- 

 preciated as is the inventor of polysylla- 

 bic names. 



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NATURE 



A TABBY AM) A WHITE SIIOKTHAIKEI) 

 DOMESTIC CAT. 



BY C. II. JONES, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Why do we call this cat a tabby? Be- 

 cause of the stripes. If he is brown he 

 is a brown tabby, if gray a gray tabby, 

 if orange he is an orange tabby with 

 white and so on through all the colors. 

 It is a common mistake to designate 

 every cat as a tabby. Tabby means a 

 marking of distinctive kind. Any 

 striped cat is a tabby. If the cat has 

 more white on the bodv than other color 



It is called a shorthaired cat to desig- 

 nate it from the longhaired or Persian 

 (commonly and mistakenly called An- 

 gora) variety. 



From a fancier's standpoint this cat 

 has a fairly good head and face, it being 

 round and full, the ears, though, are a 

 little large. 



We can oicture him as the carefully 

 cared- for pet of some cat loving house- 

 hold. His freedom from nervousness, 

 his attention to his mistress* call to give 

 attention while his picture is being taken 



A GOOD-xNATURED TABBY CAT. 



then it would be properly called a white 

 with brown, or other color, tabby mark- 

 ings, providing these markings were in 

 the form of stripes or regular markings. 



are evidences that he is free from ner- 

 vousness and is ready and does properly 

 fill the place required of a good "Domes- 

 tic Cat." 



