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A skye terrier is brought into the study, also the dachshund that 
was in before. Seems more inclined to attack the skye than the other 
dog. 
Is more especially fond of sitting in my wife’s lap and begins to show 
attachment to her above all the other members of the family. 
Now likes to lie before the fire. This especially shownfyesterday, a 
wet and cold day. 
Now shows fondness for jish. 
Now often when put in the pan will scrape up the sand, yet keep 
looking about awaiting a chance to escape. 
The kitten now takes its sleep mostly at night. It has a much more 
intelligent, older, more matured look than a couple of weeks ago. 
Sist day.— When calling for it at night in the dining-room it again 
plays at hide and seek. 
84th day—Physical growth evident. The kitten’s eyes are now the 
colour of its mother’s. 
Shows increased fondness for sitting in my wife’s lap, near the fire, 
ete. 
Less trouble for some days in getting the kitten to use the pan. 
The dachshund puppy is brought into the study. The kitten 
manifests less excitement ; evidently remembers him. 
The kitten can now and for at least three weeks past watch a long 
series of events intently. 
Sith day.—In carriage of body, tail, etc., very like a mature cat. 
88th day.—The kitten is offered some bread and milk, which it snifis 
at but evidently does not want. After thus smelling at the food it 
scratches around it as if to cover it up. 
91st day—Now when allowed out the front door the kitten runs 
across the road to a vacant lot opposite, without special fear. When let 
in follows one up close as I notice a mature cat often does. 
The way in which the kitten makes a choice as to a difficult leap to- 
day after much evident observation, apparently careful weighing of 
difficulties, ete., before the decision and choice between several possible 
ways are finally made, is a fruitful study. 
The same judgment is shown in its behaviour towards a parrot kept 
in the same room. The parrot has always proved more than equal to 
any of the kitten’s advances, and this the latter seems fully to realize. 
98th day.—Growth in height noticeable, though I see the kitten daily 
so much, 
The canary’s cage is set in a new position near the parrot. The 
kitten makes a spring on the cage and falls back. It is punished for this 
and takes it well. 
Later it moves up towards the parrot but the latter is ready to nip 
its paw, etc., so the kitten withdraws, showing some dread of this quiet 
but watchful creature. 
